[Linux] suid scripts

[Pablo Averbuj]

.----| Danny Rathjens (Mon, Oct 02, at 08:08PM) |--------------
| Am I going senile?  Any idea why this doesn't work?
| (I did RH7-custom-upgrade a week ago)

Like kendrick mentioned, no suid shell scripts. You can either use sudo or
a C wrapper.
[ .. searching for code .. ]
Ah! here it is:

--------- wrap.c ------------
#define REAL_PATH "/path/to/script" 
main(ac, av) 
   char **av; 
{
    setuid(0);
   execv(REAL_PATH, av); 
}
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If you're writing in perl, try suidperl but read all the rtfm a bit first as
there may be some precautions you should be taking (like taint checks).

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