On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Spencer Ogden wrote:
> I'm having trouble finding out how setuid works. I was under the impression
> that if you set the setuid bit with `chmod +s prog` that when the program
> was run it would run with the permissions of its owner, instead of the
> user running the program. So the effective UID gets set to the owner of
> the file, while the actual UID is the user running the program. Is this
> right or do I have something wrong?
>
> I ask because I have a perl script which I would like to be run as a
> different user, no matter who runs it. Is there something different with
> perl since the interpreter is in there somewhere?
Linux rightly refuses to honor the setuid bit on a shell script. As
far as I know, there's no way to get around that by setting permissions.
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