Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 23:21:52 +0200 From: Steve Mazerski <smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> To: Alex Drummond <alex@abingdon74.freeserve.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: write a script to get root permission Message-ID: <200207312321.52190.smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <200208012156.06758.alex@abingdon74.freeserve.co.uk> References: <020e01c238d6$41ce6f80$5d7e880a@zoomtown.com> <200208012156.06758.alex@abingdon74.freeserve.co.uk>
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On Thursday 01 August 2002 23:56, Alex Drummond wrote: > On Wednesday 31 July 2002 9:07 pm, Phil Gates wrote: > > Thanks everybody on ftp only login all your suggestions worked. I hav= e > > another problem and I know . The person that I am working for want m= e to > > write a script in ksh to do some root commands and thenexit. Is ther= e a > > way to get root permission in a script. > > > > Thanks > > > > Phil > > You have to make the script setuid root. i.e. > chown root scriptfile > chmod u+sx scriptfile Wouldn`t that be chmod g+sx scriptfile ? But... > Then the script will run as root (of course you have to run the command= s > above as root). Writing a setuid shell script is a potential security r= isk, > of course. =2E..hmm, script files aren't actually executed per-se, the interpreter (= shell or whatever) opens the file, reads it and executes each command with the interpreter's user's permissions.=20 S.Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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