Thanks to all the quick responses.
The solution is:
Tru64 Unix does not allow setuid shell scripts!
Everyone who responded recommended writing a C wrapper,
and setting that setuid, or using sudo.
Never having done either before, it looks like I'm forging
ahead into uncharted waters. (at least, uncharted for me)};-)
Thanks for all the input,
Tony Warner
Tony Warner wrote:
>
> Hi managers,
>
> Have a weird problem trying to get a suid script to run
> correctly on 4.0d or 4.0e.
>
> I have a very short script that simply moves a file
> from one place and overwrites an existing file. The existing
> file that it overwrites is run by root, and I need to run
> this script as a regular user. this is exactly like
> the /usr/bin/passwd command in function.
> So, I have written the sh script and created it's permissions
> like this:
> permissions 4750
> owner root
> group test
>
> Shouldn't this allow anyone in the group 'test' to run this
> script and allow the script to have root priveledges?
>
> This works fine on HP-UX 10.2. I happened to write this script
> there before moving it to my alpha. Everything looks just the
> same. Is there something I'm missing?
>
> Thanks,
> Tony Warner
>
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Received on Thu May 27 1999 - 15:17:09 NZST