[PATCH] config option for suid scripts

Helge Hafting (helgehaf@idb.hist.no)
Wed, 07 Jun 2000 14:25:11 +0200


>useful (such as when migrating
>from another Unix that uses them)
>safe (such as when all
>users have the root password).

Seems like a special case workaround to me.
With everybody having the root password anyway,
consider logging on as root to run the scripts,
or have a SUID copy of the shell binary
for these scripts. Then change the first line of
each script to use this special shell.
Sure - there's *no* security whatsoever, but that
doesn't seem to be a problem in
your case anyway.

Helge Hafting

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