Bryan,

I'm afraid I don't exactly follow you after skimming through this, but
if this is a permissions issue with setuid, you might want to look
into sudo (man 5 sudoers).

Mike

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:44:02PM -0700, Bryan Murdock wrote:
> I have an application that a group of us are working on, it's under cvs,
> and as soon as someone does a commit I want the updated files to be
> copied to a certain globally accessible directory, so that people
> immediately get the updated tool that we are working on.  Rather than
> create some new group for the three or four of us we though we could
> just have me be the owner of the files in this global directory and use
> a script that is run setuid as me.  That way whoever does a commit
> should have no problem overwriting the files in that global dir, but the
> only way for anyone to overwrite those files is by doing a commit.  
> 
> The problem is, the setuid script doesn't seem to have the necessary
> permissions if run on a Redhat box, just if run on an HP-UX box.  Is
> there a way to turn setuid off and on (I'm thinking it's off on the
> linux box for some reason)?  How do I fix it?  Or is there a Better Way
> to do what I'm trying to do here?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bryan
> 
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