hmmm... i was under the impression that suid wasn't honored for scripts? or was that just bash scripts? pete On Wed 10 Jan 01, 11:09 AM, Sathish C said... > > Hi All > > I am having debian linux on my machine. > > I want to give permission to create and delete users on my machine,to > some specified users. > I tried giving execute permissions on useradd and userdel to those > users. > It did not work. Then I set setuid bit and tried. It worked. > Is this going to have any ill effects? > > Thanks in advance. > > Bye > Kilaru Content-Description: Card for Sathish C -- Just upgraded to Woody? Don't have permission to run X? linux In Xwrapper.config, change allowed_users from root to console. - ------------------------------------------------------------------- ._. "Coffee...I've conquered the Borg on coffee." p@belial.ucdavis.edu /v\ --Kathryn Janeway on the virtues of coffee http://www.dirac.org // \\ ------------------------------------------------------------------- ^^ ^^ GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D rules
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