On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 19:37, Richard Esplin wrote: > Can you not setuid a script, or can you simply not setuid root a script? > Dave's question is how to go from being root to being a non-superuser. > Wouldn't setuid work in this scenario? > Richard
I just tried it and it didn't work. I'm not sure if it's because of security or what. But I think it may have to do with bash scripts lacking the ability to do a setuid() call to obtain privileges of that user. Not sure. Michael -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
