would writing scripts in a compiled language like
C be a solution?
can a user have permission to exec a script
contained in a directory they don't have read
access to?
xucaen
--- Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> that is what I was afraid of. I'd given some
> thought to sudo or suid but
> maybe letting users read the script is okay.
> So much for security through
> obscurity ;)
>
> thanks again
> rick
>
> brian moore writes:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 06:24:33PM +0000,
> Rick wrote:
> > > sorry for off-topic, but I've been banging
> my head trying to set up shell
> > > scripts that can be executed but not read
> by a user.
> >
> > Not doable.
> >
> > The shell needs to read them in order to
> execute them.
> >
> > (Well, you could do something REALLY evil
> like suid wrappers switching
> > them to a user id that could read the
> script.... but that is ugly.)
> >
> > --
> > CueCat decoder .signature by Larry Wall:
> > #!/usr/bin/perl -n
> > printf "Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n", map
> { tr/a-zA-Z0-9+-/ -_/; $_ = unpack
> > 'u', chr(32 + length()*3/4) . $_; s/\0+$//;
> $_ ^= "C" x length; } /\.([^.]+)/g;
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