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From: brando@uiucme2.me.uiuc.edu (Brando W. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: can you setuid a ksh script?
Summary: Yes you can, but...
Keywords: KSH setuid script
Message-ID: <1990Mar29.174510.13953@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 90 17:45:10 GMT
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In article <10910003@hpcc01.HP.COM> gph@hpcc01.HP.COM (Paul Houtz) writes:
>Can a korn shell script be made setuid?
>
>I have tried doing it with chmod and it hasn't worked.
>
>Can anyone out there who has already successfully done this please
>let me know the steps neccessary?   If you know for sure that it 
>can't be done, that info would be helpful too.
>
>I want a ksh script that is setuid root.

To do this you I think you have to recompile KSH with a switch set in a .h
file. More information is included in the README that comes with the source
set.

Brando

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