I see that you have resolved your problem with bad permissions on
/tmp. But I wanted to follow another line of discussion.
Sebastian Tennant wrote:
> [...test cases of suid-scripts...]
> A cron.daily script handles mandb. I elected to install it with the
> set-user-id bit set, as you can see:
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Jarc) wrote:
> Sebastian Tennant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> OK, but mandb _is_ a member of the root group, so shouldn't it be able
>> to write files in /tmp with the permissions as they stand?
>
> No, you'd have to make it setuid to root, or setgid to the root
> group.
Sebastian Tennant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, but mandb _is_ a member of the root group, so shouldn't it be able
> to write files in /tmp with the permissions as they stand?
No, you'd have to make it setuid to root, or setgid to the root
group. The user/group associations in /etc/passwd and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Jarc) wrote:
> Sebastian Tennant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have a 3-line script; foo:
>
> The setuid bit works only for binaries, not scripts. This is a
> limitation of the kernel, necessary for security.
Ah. I read the chmod manpage and some stuff in the find Info
Sebastian Tennant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a 3-line script; foo:
The setuid bit works only for binaries, not scripts. This is a
limitation of the kernel, necessary for security.
> A cron.daily script handles mandb. I elected to install it with the
> set-user-id bit set, as you can se
