Hi Stan
You can get sudo from
ftp://ftp.falsehope.com/pub/sudo
ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/sites/ftp.falsehope.com/sudo
ftp://ftp.freshmeat.net/pub/rpms/sudo
I can't remember how, but I think you need to do special things to gets
scripts to be setuid. Anyone out there know how to do this?
Chris.
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Stan Isaacs wrote:
> Here's another question, for a tool I need in teaching beginning Unix
> using Redhat 6.1 Linux. I have the users mail me history files, comments,
> questions, etc. But, since they are just learning unix basics, they keep
> asking me if the mail worked, if it got to me successfully. So I wrote
> a simple script to search my mailfiles (both /var/spool/mail and my
> local box, that Pine creates), grep out the Subject and From lines, combine
> them, and grep for the calling users account name. It all works pretty well,
> except for the fact that I cannot suid (or sgid) a script, so the users
> cannot search my mail files! Is there any way around this? Anybody have
> a method that will allow someone on the same machine to check if mail was
> delivered?
>
> In looking at the archives, there is mention of a "sudo" program that
> might do what I want, but I don't seem to have it on my system. Where
> does it come from?
>
> I suppose in the worst case, I should be able to write a "C" wrapper
> program, which (I hope) could be suid'd; is there one already available?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Stan Isaacs
Chris Dowling.
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