On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 09:48:58AM +0000, Nick Thompson wrote:
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| I have a script, which works just fine if I am root (wwwoffle is running
| as root), but will not work if I am a user (don't own wwwoffle,
| therefore can't kill it). So I set the script ownership to root and
| turned on the SUID bit. But still I can't kill wwwoffle. Any ideas why?
Linux doesn't do setuid scripts.
| Is there a better approach?
Use sudo. Details in the manual.
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