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Date:      Sat, 14 May 2011 16:02:41 -0400
From:      Alejandro Imass <ait@p2ee.org>
To:        "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Cc:        Chris Telting <christopher-ml@telting.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Pan Tsu <inyaoo@gmail.com>, krad <kraduk@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?
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On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Randal L. Schwartz
<merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Pan" =3D=3D Pan Tsu <inyaoo@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> (Untested) why not just "#!/usr/local/bin/sudo" ? =A0It'll be given the
> filename as an argument.

Precisely. I think this thread should be forked to something like
"suid versus sudo for scripts"?

I second the sudo idea instead of suiding the interpreter, and it's a
better solution to the one I have used in the past like C-wrapping and
suiding specific operations.



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