Re: [CentOS] setuid or other ideas

2013-10-15 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 10/14/2013 02:31 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Everyone, > > I am working on a Centos 5.9 system. I have an need to be able to > activate a piece of software from /etc/smrsh that is activated when > sendmail delivers the e-mail to this piece of software. I would like > this piece of software t

Re: [CentOS] setuid or other ideas

2013-10-15 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > I have never used setuid, but it appears that this will only allow a > piece of software to be set to root. I really do not want to give that > kind of privilege to this piece of software. IIRC suid sets the effective user to the owner of the file.

Re: [CentOS] setuid or other ideas

2013-10-14 Thread Lists
On 10/14/2013 02:31 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Everyone, > > I am working on a Centos 5.9 system. I have an need to be able to > activate a piece of software from /etc/smrsh that is activated when > sendmail delivers the e-mail to this piece of software. I would like > this piece of software t