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Re: print permissions



On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 05:12:20PM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote:
> What about this: 
> 
> -rwsr-sr-x   1 root     lp          14236 Jul 30  1997 /usr/bin/lpr
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     lp          14236 Jul 30  1997 /usr/bin/lpr.orig
> (fake listing, just for demo purposes)
> 
> Now lpr is the wrapper program (not script) and the real lpr, lpr.orig
> does not have the right permissions to run.  I think this is how sudo
> works.

I guess that should work. Glynn has suggested a much nicer method
anyway.


Hamish
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