Sebastian Tennant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a 3-line script; foo:
The setuid bit works only for binaries, not scripts. This is a limitation of the kernel, necessary for security. > A cron.daily script handles mandb. I elected to install it with the > set-user-id bit set, as you can see: Is it meant to be installed that way? If not, you probably shouldn't do that. It might break something, or introduce a security risk. > it certianly shouldn't have any trouble creating it in /tmp: > > drwxrwxr-x 13 root root 4096 Dec 27 16:50 /tmp With those permissions, only the root user and root group can create files in /tmp. To allow all users to create files there, make it world-writable and sticky: # chmod 1777 /tmp # ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 13 root root 4096 Dec 27 16:50 /tmp paul _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
