Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 10:14:20 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Chris Telting <christopher-ml@telting.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Established method to enable suid scripts? Message-ID: <20110511141420.GD41080@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4DC9DE2C.6070605@telting.org> References: <4DC9DE2C.6070605@telting.org>
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On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: > I've googled for over an hour. > > I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs > that are currently fixed. Suid in and of itself is a security issue. > But if you are using suid it it should work; I don't want to use a > kludge and I don't want to use sudo. I'm hoping it's a setting that is > just disabled by default. My understanding is that in general the system does not allow SUID on scripts. The way I have gotten around that (a long time ago) was to create a small binary that exec's the script and making the binary SUID. Security cautions apply. ////jerry > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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