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Re: Permissions 101



Quoting Bob Bernstein (poobah@ruptured-duck.com):
> I'm trying to understand the suid bit. So I created a little script to list
> a file that I don't as a normal user have permission to read, namely
> /var/log/user.log. Here's the data, starting with the permissions on
> user.log:

> Here's my little script "sutest", and its permissions, followed by the
> results of executing it:

You can't suid scripts. Period.

Cheers,

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