jteich wrote:
>
> I wanted to run a shell script program that needs to run with root permissions, and
>I wanted to
> be able to start this script without su'ing. I tried to set the suid bit on the
>program, but I
> found out that the suid bit only works for binary executables. Then I wrote a simple
>c program
> that starts up the shell program through the system() call, and I chown the program
>to root and
> set the suid bit on it, but for some reason the shell still wouldn't run as root.
>What am I
> doing wrong and is there any way aroud this?
Look up "sudo". It lets you configure, by hostname, userid and command, who
can run commands as root without the root password.
Geoff.
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