Re: Can't do setuid

To: Jim Worthington <jworthington@worldnet.att.net>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Can't do setuid
From: Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 1996 01:33:27 -0500
Message-id: <[🔎] 877moy9fig.fsf@raven.ots.utexas.edu>
In-reply-to: Jim Worthington's message of Tue, 08 Oct 1996 15:01:32 -0400
References: <[🔎] 325AA50C.2EE8DE59@worldnet.att.net>

Jim Worthington <jworthington@worldnet.att.net> writes:

> It appears that Debian Linux does not have setuid capability.  Is this a
> feature that I can turn on through a configuration file?

I would recommend that you investigate the sudo and super packages.
They will allow you to do exactly what you want much more securely.

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Rob

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