[Linux] suid scripts

[Kendrick Vargas]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Danny Rathjens wrote:

> Am I going senile?  Any idea why this doesn't work?
> (I did RH7-custom-upgrade a week ago)
> 
>  % ls -al suidtst
> -rwsr-xr-x    1 502       666           13 Oct  2 15:38 suidtst*
>  % cat suidtst
> #!/bin/sh
> id -u
>  % id -u
> 501
>  % ./suidtst
> 501
>  % 

I vaguely remember that a number of OS's (I know IRIX is one of
them) don't allow for suid shell scripts. Maybe that's it?
			-peace

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