I believe the program also needs to be "chmod o+s" to run
setuid...but I could be wrong.
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:51:03 +0800, Robert Reyes wrote:
>thanks man!
>
>From: "Statux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 10:23 AM
>Subject: Re: running a program as root
>
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>> you're talking about setuid root, which you must be VERY careful with.
>> Only certain programs are tollerant of this.
>>
>> chown root file
>>
>> or
>>
>> chown root:root file <--to set the group too, etc, you should know this
>> part
>>
>> then:
>>
>> chmod 4755 file
>>
>> or something to that effect.
>>
>> remember how to calculate permissions:
>>
>> 4 2 1 - [ setuid, setgid, and I forget ]
>> 421 421 421 - [ owner, group, others ]
>>
>> so rwxr-xr-x without special stuff is 0755 or just 755, and rwxr-x--- with
>> setuid and setgid settings would be 6750.
>>
>> most of the time to setuid something, you just chmod it to 4755. to setuid
>> root you do that and make sure that the file is owned by root.
>>
>> etc etc
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Robert Reyes wrote:
>>
>> > hey guys!
>> > i know i have done this but seem to forgot how to do it again. how can i
>> > change a property of a program so that when it is used by other users,
>it
>> > will run as root. for example smbmount, when users other than root runs
>it,
>> > it says not permitted, how do i remove this permission thing?
>> > thanks for any help =)
>> >
>> > ==============================
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>> > Junior Software Developer
>> > Colibria Phils, Inc
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