On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 07:44:09AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > heh... i completely missed that. henry, what's up with the K+R? ;) Ask Tom Christiansen. :-P > and i'm a competant enough C programmer to know you can call scripts from C, > but that wasn't the point. useradd is a script, not a C executable. so i > have no idea why it would honor his request for setuid since he didn't > mention anything about writing a wrapper... Are you sure? romana:~/$ file /usr/sbin/useradd /usr/sbin/useradd: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, Alpha (unofficial), version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped (Probably say something else on your system, but you get the idea ;-) -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc
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