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From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Running processes as root
Message-ID: <1296@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 89 21:37:41 GMT
References: <1989Oct19.182027.11171@newcastle.ac.uk>
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In article <1989Oct19.182027.11171@newcastle.ac.uk>, aidan%ncl.shire@newcastle.ac.uk (Aidan Saunders) writes:
> The program prog1 is a shell script owned by root in group staff and of 
> mode 4750
> ie: 
> 	-rwsr-x---  root    staff    prog1 

Your problem is that under system V shells do not gain setuid privileges.
If you relly want this to work you need to creat a small c program like 
the following:

	main() { execl("/bin/sh","sh","/etc/program",(char *) 0); exit(0); }

	first, move prog1 to /etc/program
	compile the program above, chmod 4755 it, and place it whereever
	prog1 was




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