Re: setuid root

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:48:26 +0200
Patrick Useldinger <pu.news.001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Tiago Simões Batista wrote:
The sysadmin already set the setuid bit on the script, but it
still fails when it tries to write to any file that only root has
write access to.

use sudo.
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Thank you, both fot you and for Ove Svensson.

I was looking for a simpler way, that required as little intervention as possible from the main sysadmin. Given the situation I am facing, I will probably use sudo, it keeps things cleaner...

Again, thank you

Tiago

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