Hi, On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 02:02:18PM +0200, zhengda wrote:
> I also write a SHELL script "runwithpfinet" to set the environment > variables and run the command provided by the user. [...] > It works in most of cases. but it doesn't work with "ping" when the > user execute "runwithpfinet 1 ping www.google.com". "ping" still uses > the default pfinet server. The main reason, I think, is that "ping" > has a sticky bit. When the user runs it, it gets the privilege of > root, and meanwhile, the environment variables are changed. Does > anyone has any ideas to fix the problem? This is perfectly correct behaviour. If it could be "fixed", that would actually mean there is a serious security problem -- the user has no business meddling with the execution environment of a program running as root! -antrik-
