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From: egnu02@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Rae)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: setuid?
Message-ID: <3830@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 7 May 90 08:45:16 GMT
References: <1990May7.020504.26757@icase.edu>
Reply-To: egnu02@castle.ed.ac.uk (Mark Rae)
Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service
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In article <1990May7.020504.26757@icase.edu> arras@icase.edu (Michael Arras) writes:
>
>	I have a shell script I would like other users to run as myself. I
>tried:
>
>% chmod +s myfile
>

Use chmod giving the octal permission values

% chmod 4711 myfile 

which gives -rws--x--x permissions.
REAL wizards always do it this way :)

	-Mark