[PLUG] suid

Russ Johnson russj at dimstar.net
Fri May 20 18:00:24 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?
>  
>
First thought is users environment. Do you specify the path to 
executables in your script?

Without more information, it will be hard to come up with specifics.

What do you expect, and what exactly is happening?

Russ



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