Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 21:47:58 +0400 From: Pan Tsu <inyaoo@gmail.com> To: Chris Telting <christopher-ml@telting.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, krad <kraduk@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Established method to enable suid scripts? Message-ID: <86k4duh4q9.fsf@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DCD02EF.7050808@telting.org> (Chris Telting's message of "Fri, 13 May 2011 03:07:43 -0700") References: <4DC9DE2C.6070605@telting.org> <201105121657.57647.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> <4DCBFC39.8060900@telting.org> <201105130932.32144.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> <BANLkTin4rkQouSiOy4M1uu%2BqXSWJzF_STA@mail.gmail.com> <4DCD02EF.7050808@telting.org>
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Chris Telting <christopher-ml@telting.org> writes: > On 05/13/2011 01:32, krad wrote: >> what i cant understand is the complete aversion to sudo. Could you >> shed any light on why you are trying to avoid a tried and tested >> method. > > That I freely admit is for no rational reason. It's just annoying. But ...a shebang can be written with sudo in mind, e.g. #! /usr/bin/env -S sudo sh id $ ./foo.sh uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel),5(operator) $ ls -l -rwxr-xr-x 1 luser luser 31 May 13 21:36 foo.sh > let me ask you.. is "sudo ping" acceptable? Please explain the logical > reason why not. It would be the preferred method if suid didn't exist > and sudo was part of the base system.
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