On Thu, 13 Jan 1994, Roland McGrath wrote:

> So I can't have setuid shell scripts at all??  That is a moby lose.  I
> really don't give a rat's ass about security on my machine;
> reliability isn't even too vital, but I need to be able to write
> ridiculous shell scripts!  How else is one supposed to survive unix?
> 

So write a wrapper (in C) that runs setuid and execs the script...Or, 
perhaps, use Perl, which will emulate setuid scripts if the kernel 
doesn't support it...There are a few ways around it...

I use the Perl method...It works good for me...

Later...

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