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From: dberg@informix.com (David I. Berg)
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Subject: Re: how to setuid for shell scripts?
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Date: 15 Nov 90 20:27:30 GMT
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In article <25009@adm.brl.mil> K390590%AEARN@pucc.princeton.edu ( Steinparz Franz) writes:
>Could someone give me advice how to make a shell script which inherits
>its access rights from its owner as this is done by set uid for regular
>programs......

What I've done in the same circumstance is write a one line C program which
system calls the shell script, and then setuid the C program.