On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:25 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I created this 2 line script:
>
> ===============================================
> #!/bin/sh
> echo `whoami`
> ===============================================
>
> With these perms:
>
> ===============================================
> 4 -rwsr-sr-x 1 seb seb 24 2008-05-27 13:21 test
> ===============================================
>
> Why doesn't it print seb when I run it as root?....
>
> ===============================================
> # ./test
> root
> ===============================================
>
> Doesn't setting setuid bit imply it must run as if you are user seb?
>
> How make it do this?
Something between all and nearly all Unix-like operating systems do
not honor SETUID for scripts. For security reasons.
carl
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