Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > Scripts are not allowed to set UID, it's a security feature. I don't > > know where this occurs, but it's pretty low level, perhaps in the > > kernel itself or in the shell, and there's no getting around it. There > > are just too many holes that allowing scripts to be setuid root would > > allow and so that capability is disallowed. > > It's in bash (which is also sh on most linux systems), a pain in the a**, > I mean, "feature". I don't know of any other shells that do this.
No, it's in the kernel. Any executable that starts with "#!" does this, because the kernel is repsonsible for that magic thing working. -- see shy jo
