[PLUG] suid

AthlonRob athlonrob at axpr.net
Fri May 20 17:54:38 UTC 2005


Nick Wehr wrote:
> in Gentoo I want a perl (or sh) script to run as a specific user (not root)...
> I chmod ug+s it while I'm the desired user, however, it still doesn't work as I
> expect.  /etc/ftab doesn't prevent suid... what gives?

IIRC, the kernel won't allow suid scripts to be run as suid.

Rob



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