sudo in a shell script

Fri Jul 15 10:14:33 UTC 2005

On vr, 2005-07-15 at 11:07 +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:

> You probably want to use a script which has been setuid'd to root

That's not possible for shell scripts...

Scripts can only be setuid root if the interpreter for that script is
setuid root (and NEVER EVER make bash setuid root!). Perl has a special
setuid root interpreter, no other scripted language has that afaik.
-- 
Dennis K.
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