On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 07:13:50AM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: > On 05/11/2011 07:14, Jerry McAllister wrote: > >On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote: > > > >>I've googled for over an hour. > >> > >>I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs > >>that are currently fixed. Suid in and of itself is a security issue. > >>But if you are using suid it it should work; I don't want to use a > >>kludge and I don't want to use sudo. I'm hoping it's a setting that is > >>just disabled by default. > >My understanding is that in general the system does not allow SUID > >on scripts. The way I have gotten around that (a long time ago) > >was to create a small binary that exec's the script and making > >the binary SUID. > > > > Well it's all hacks and in my not so humble option like chasing your > tail. The assumption is that if someone creates an executable > (assumption is programming is C) they are more credible not to make > mistakes. That's a fallacy and just plain nuts. And I'm an interpreted > language snob saying that. Suid is either allowable or not and should > be a sysctl and apply equally to binaries and scripts. Yet another > thing to add to my project list. Anyone know of an established patch > for fix this freebsd issue or am I yet again going to have to create my own?
Guess you will have to do your own. It's not a problem for the rest of us. ////jerry > > Either way thank you all again for your feedback. > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
