(Intentionally top posting) Ok, thanks very much!
That resolves that -- I do have another way of doing it (the c helper program), I just don't like it -- I'll probably continue to use that but think about alternatives. On Tuesday, May 10, 2022 07:58:39 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > The Linux kernel does not honor the setuid bit on a script. Any script. > Anything that's executed via a shebang, rather than an ELF header. > > This is for security purposes, as there's some sort of race condition > or something. I forget the exact details, but the point is, you can't > do this. Find another solution.