Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:49:23 +0000
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to kill root processes?
Message-ID:  <19981205174923.B37396@scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812051514590.24857-100000@finland.ispro.net.tr>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812051514590.24857-100000@finland.ispro.net.tr>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Evren Yurtesen wrote:

> I tried to make a script for it and I gave set-user-ID-on-execution
> bit with chmod but it did not work...(file was owned by root)

You can't make sh scripts suid, because /bin/sh is not suid (at least
I think that's the reason). Make a small wrapper in C which then execs
the script, or just write the whole thing in C.

-- 
Ben Smithurst
ben@scientia.demon.co.uk

send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19981205174923.B37396>