Re: setuid vs executing as that user

2000-07-20 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On 20 Jul 2000 21:12 Bret Hughes wrote: >I would like to run netscape as a different user from a >script to display some images. I (apparently mistakenly) >thought that if I ran netscape from a script with the setuid >bit set and the owner of the script being the user I want, >that I could then l

setuid vs executing as that user

2000-07-20 Thread Bret Hughes
I would like to run netscape as a different user from a script to display some images. I (apparently mistakenly) thought that if I ran netscape from a script with the setuid bit set and the owner of the script being the user I want, that I could then launch netscape as that user. Nope. Is there