Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 21:58:29 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: Terry Todd <tlt@tltodd.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setuid shell script Message-ID: <19980810215829.A778@flarn.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199808110017.TAA20898@tltodd.com>; from Terry Todd on Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 07:17:23PM -0500 References: <199808110017.TAA20898@tltodd.com>
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On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 07:17:23PM -0500, Terry Todd wrote: > Is there something that prevents a setuid root shell script from > working? Yes; they are deliberately not allowed, because as you note they are inherently unsafe. You will have to write a compiles setuid program that runs the script that you want. You could probably use Perl also, as it provides its own magic for making setuid scripts work. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Inertia is a property of matter. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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