On Monday 15 May 2006 11:12, Peter Rundle allegedly wrote: > I vaguely recall that chmod +s is only valid for binaries as the command > being executed is bash, the script is just a data file to bash. I could be > wrong on this one though...
This is correct. You can get around this by using a small C program (using exec(), etc) instead of the shell script, which is chmod'd g+s or whatever. check "man 3 system", mine says Debian uses a modified sh which doesn't drop these priveleges on startup, not sure if that is still correct. Cheers, Malcolm V. -- Referring to a book: I read part of it all the way through. -Samuel Goldwyn -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
