On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:39:13 +1100 "Andrew Donnellan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/sudo > -rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 91700 2006-04-15 17:39 /usr/bin/sudo > > The 's' where the 'x' is usually means setuid... > > So IOW sudo always runs as root, the whole authentication thing is > only to determine whether sudo should run something else. > i see. i see. i must be stupid not seeing that by my self. so to bring this to an end, i've just worked around setuid with urequestd. this is obviosly not very helpful but creative though :-) thank you for the help regards, curt -- make sure that anywhere in your mail the string 'debian' appears. otherwise your message will not end up in my mailbox! please cc me, i am not subscribed to the list Curt Manucredo curtm2 at yahoo dot de .''`. : :' : `. `'` `- proud debian-user http://www.debian.org http://blueblended.wordpress.com http://www.keinverlag.at/autoren.php?autor=2311 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]