[TriLUG] SUID question

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Richard O. Hammer wrote:

> I seem to be missing something basic about the way SUID
> works.  I can't give my ordinary users the powers of root in
> executable files.
[...] 
> What am I overlooking?
> 

As Adrian already replied, you can't have suid shell scripts in Linux.  
You can write suid Perl scripts through a special mode in Perl, although 
I'm not sure exactly how that works.

You could also use "sudo" to allow users to run specified commands as 
root.

Hope this helps,
Jeremy