On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 05:50:38AM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:00:00AM +0000, Ward Vandewege wrote: > Setu/giding a shell script doesn't work.
Damn, I knew this - ran into it 5 years ago or so at college... > You have to setuid the shell > which is running the script. And you don't want a so-called "root > shell" anywhere on your system! Certainly not, indeed. > 3) make /sbin/kbdrate setuid root. Works perfectly. Can't believe I didn't think of this and was messing with /dev/port instead. I must have been very, very tired or something. Hmmm. Thanks! Bye for now, Ward. -- Pong.be -( "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to )- Virtual hosting -( reinvent it, poorly." -- Henry Spencer )- http://pong.be -( )- GnuPG public key: http://gpg.dtype.org
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