On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote: > ce: bulk > X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > At 12:12 AM 3/1/2003 -0500, [ramzez] wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Hi friends... > > Which perms I have to give to my script if I wanna that other users run it > >but just how if I run it. > > I know that is something with suid but I can't do it > > This question is a bit hard to follow. (If, as I suspect from your e-mail > address, English is not your native language, you might do better to use > very standard English, rather than try to use informal constructions like > "perms" and "wanna". My actual problem, though, is needing to guess what > you mean by "but just how if I run it".) > > If I guess your meaning correctly, you want others to be able too execute a > program, and have it run as though it were executed by you (the file's > owner). For example, in order to be able to change their passwords, > ordinary users need to be able to run the program "passwd" as though they > were root so they can write to the /etc/shadow file. > > You accomplish that by setting the suid bit, which you can do with the command > > chmod +s filename > > Try "man chmod" for the details. The program needs to be normally > executable by the user in question, for example. > Try man execve (towards the end, in NOTES) to see why this probably won't work with a script. perl claims to handle setuid scripts, but I haven't had the need to figure out how to work it. I think the perl interpreter itself has to be setuid, and then it gets very fussy about checking your script for booby-traps.
You could write a binary program to call your script, and make it (the binary program) setuid, I guess, but be careful. Lawson -- ---oops--- ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
