On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 08:10:59PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: > On 8/28/09, RW <rwmailli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:54:19 +0300 > > Giorgos Keramidas <keram...@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:24:35 +0100, Jeronimo Calvo > >> <jeronimocal...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > >> > As far as i know, using SUID, script must runs with root > >> > permissions... so i shoudnt get "Permission denied", what im doing > >> > wrong?? > >> > >> No it must not. There are security reasons why shell scripts are not > >> setuid-capable. You can find some of them in the archives of the > >> mailing list, going back at least until 1997. > > > > I'm bit puzzled by this, previous threads have given the impression > > that this is a myth, for example: > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg185134.html > > > > So are scripts actually incapable of running setuid? > > > Dunno, but this dawns on me.. > > what defines a script? I've always defined a script that starts with > a #! shebang. > > So the script can be SUID, but the interpreter/shell isn't. Is that > why it doesn't work?
It doesn't work because the system does not allow it - for security reasons. You could fish around and defeat that but don't. The most common way to get around it is create a tiny binary that can run Setuid which merely invokes your script. The better way is to use Sudo as has been suggested already in this thread. ////jerry > > > --Tim > _______________________________________________ > 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" _______________________________________________ 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"