I have a query about chmod. pon is turned on by root, I want it to be turned off by any user. I have looked at several options, sudo, downgrading permissions for kill, gulp, etc etc but decided that for my setup using chmod and setting the user ID for poff would be the best.
test@debian:~$ su Password: debian:/home/test# chmod 4755 /usr/bin/poff debian:/home/test# ls -al /usr/bin/poff -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 2772 Dec 10 2001 /usr/bin/poff debian:/home/test# debian:/home/test# pon debian:/home/test# debian:/home/test# exit exit test@debian:~$ test@debian:~$ poff /usr/bin/poff: /bin/kill failed. None stopped. test@debian:~$ test@debian:~$ which poff /usr/bin/poff test@debian:~$ mmm, my ls-al seems to tell me suid has been set, as I understand it the process generated by calling poff from user test should now be run as root. As root it should kill the link started by pon. It fails when poff executes /bin/kill. Any idea why ? Does SUID only apply to the called process and not any secondary processes ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
