Eric, I recall that running scripts with suid set is disallowed. A reference is given in the O'Reilly "Learning the Bash Shell" book, 2nd Ed., page 255. "Modern system administration wisdom says that creating suid shell scripts is a very, very bad idea. In fact, some versions of UNIX intentionally disable the suid feature for shell scripts." Highly recommend the book. Craig Van Degrift On Friday 15 December 2000 09:01, you wrote: > > I've RTFM, and then read it again, I'm missing something OBVIOUS. > > I'm trying to build a simple script which executes one line, but it > needs root permission. So, I built the one line script, did a chown > root.system script ; chmod 6755 script. > > However it acts like the script is running still as the underprivileged > user. > > Can I not allow a less powered user to run a command as root by using a > script and the S bit? > > If so what am I missing!! > > Thanx > > Eric ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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