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 > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- ------------------------------------------- | --------------------- Michael Halcrow | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer, IBM Linux Technology Center | | Who is General Failure and why is he | reading my hard disk? | ------------------------------------------- | --------------------- GnuPG Keyprint: 05B5 08A8 713A 64C1 D35D 2371 2D3C FDDA 3EB6 601D
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