Re: setuid programs under "sarge" and "woody"
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 11:28:19AM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote:
> We have their tar program installed under the wsbackup login. The
> program is owned by root.root and has setuid and setgid permissions.
> > It seems the script is being found, but has errors/doesn't
> > execute/something.
>
> Is there something else I should do to allow this program to run
> setuid root?
if it is a bash script rewrite it to a perl script. bash scripts do not run
suid root.
You can also make the backup user numerical uid 0 and restrict its commands
it can execute by ssh cmd= command.
Greetings
Bernd
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