From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 10 21:42:30 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F17537B401 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:42:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.nmu.edu (mail1.NMU.EDU [198.110.192.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3762343FA3 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:42:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from plathrop@mqtweb.com) Received: from mqtweb.com (Minerva.resnet.nmu.edu [204.38.207.11]) by mail1.nmu.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2B5gB7P052180; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 00:42:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 00:42:07 -0500 Subject: Re: suid shell script Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org To: Jonathan Chen From: Paul Lathrop In-Reply-To: <20030311052835.GA65690@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Message-Id: <327C6D9F-5384-11D7-9C72-000393BF3DE2@mqtweb.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail (v25) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 12:28 AM, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > Dunno about Linux, but every other modern UNIX out there doesn't allow > setuid scripts. > Thanks for your response. Now my question is - how does one automate tasks requiring root privileges? Paul Lathrop -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQE+bXczlos2supvBQwRApNCAJ4hBh/IW04wPaNl/dYQ97elF2OzIwCfecdP Twx+Q8robLPf47PCbCsn0HU= =HKrj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message