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#! rnews 1995 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!nntp.uio.no!sn.no!gsl-stkh-ns.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!eru.mt.luth.se!newsfeed2.luth.se!news.luth.se!erix.ericsson.se!erinews.ericsson.se!news From: Jan de Visser <etmjdvi@etm.ericsson.se> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: script run as nobody with root permissions? Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 08:42:40 -0800 Organization: Ericsson/ETM Lines: 40 Message-ID: <33452F80.1760@etm.ericsson.se> References: <3343ED80.71D3C60B@giotto.dnet.it> Reply-To: etmjdvi@etm.ericsson.se NNTP-Posting-Host: etmpc3117.ericsson.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win16; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38411 comp.unix.misc:28613 It is documented behaviour that setuid does not work for shell scripts. (oddly enough, it works in our HP/UX 9 env. Not on SunOS however...) JdV!! Markus Senoner wrote: > > I want to write a script (say: foobar) like: > > #!/bin/sh > mkdir /xxx > > and run it as nobody, it obviously gives an error message: > > > ./foobar > mkdir: /xxx: Permission denied > > when I try to set following permissions: > > -rwsr-sr-x 1 root wheel foobar > > and try to execute the script again, it still gives: > > > ./foobar > mkdir: /xxx: Permission denied > > I tried to put nobody in the wheel group, but still no success. > What do I wrong? > > Thanks a lot in advance! > Markus Senoner -- ======================================================================== Jan de Visser etmjdvi@etm.ericsson.se ETM/OPP TMOS Technical support jan.de.visser@nlbdafsc.origin.nl tel. +31 161 242650 <enter any 12 digit prime to continue> ========================================================================