Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!marob!daveh
From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Root shell in shell scripts, HELP?
Message-ID: <334@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: 18 Jul 88 13:24:40 GMT
References: <16492@brl-adm.ARPA> <833@lsrhs.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveh@marob.UUCP (Dave Hammond)
Organization: 18th Street Construction Company (ESCC). NY, NY
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In article <833@lsrhs.UUCP> led@lsrhs.UUCP (Jay Jungalwala) writes:
>
>	Well see what I am looking for is a program (useing shell schripts)
        ^^^^^^^^^                                    ^^^^^^       ^^^^^^^^
        Well, see,                                   using        scripts
>to make a root shell useing csh but haveing it set uid to root, but it can
                      ^^^^^^         ^^^^^^^
                      using          having
>be run by non-root people.  See I need this, because I am writeing a exam
                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^
                                                           writing an
>(computer) and I need a root shell in the exam.  And this will be executible
                                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^
                                                                   executeable
>by everyone, but csh for some reason likes (I think) to do a getlogin(), then 
>a getuid() I on the getlogin().  So is there a way around this, or it can
>also be a program (C) that will do it.
>
>	Well if you need more info on what I am talking about here is my
>mailing address:
>
>	led%lsrhs@mit-caf.uucp	[Last I checked this worked]
>
>And I will give you all the information that I can.
>

I am having so much fun correcting the grammar that to answer the question
seems almost superfluous. Besides, I can't seem to make heads or tails of
what JJ is really trying to say :-). However, as a stab-in-the-dark, I would
say he's looking for 'su'. No?

Dave Hammond
UUCP:   {uunet|rutgers|spl1|...}!hombre!marob!daveh
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