Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 23:37:53 -0500 From: Paul Lathrop <plathrop@mqtweb.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: suid shell script Message-ID: <391E822F-537B-11D7-9C72-000393BF3DE2@mqtweb.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I must admit I feel silly having to ask, but I've been banging my head against this for a couple days now and I am completely stumped. I just recently switched from Slackware Linux 8.0 to FreeBSD. There are a couple of scripts I use for my own convenience that I ran setuid root on my Linux box. All that I had to do was make sure the scripts were owned by root, and then do a chmod 4711 on them to make it work in Linux. I just set up a script on FreeBSD - the first time I've actually done it since I switched. I followed the same procedure, but when I run the script as a normal user, it does not run with elevated priveleges. I've scoured the web for info on this but all I have been able to find references to are difficulties with Perl scripts. I don't know Perl (yet). I took all the extraneous stuff out of my script and boiled it down to three simple commands that I know work - just to make sure my program logic wasn't the problem. Here it is: #!/bin/tcsh mkdir $3 chown -R $1 $3 chgrp -R $2 $3 chmod -R 771 $3 So now it's down to a proof-of-concept script. If I can make this work with the elevated privileges, I can move on to the real script. Can anyone out there help me understand what I am doing wrong? Thanks, Paul D. Lathrop -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQE+bWgklos2supvBQwRAtZ8AJ48Xs+FIweasAck0/Iz47mnp2VeUACfZZXr +QBNLYIcHErEwbaP6HDZBM0= =/b6N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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