Re: "setuid(UID)" and "chmod 4550" misbehaving

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Subject: Re: "setuid(UID)" and "chmod 4550" misbehaving
From: John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 08:41:30 +0800
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Will Trillich wrote:

TASK:     allow USER1 to run a program AS USER2.
SOLUTION: setuid bit (in theory, right?)
PROBLEM:  theory not matching execution...

we've got a little C program that must be RUN AS a certain user
(cyrus) BY another user (www-data) so we figured turning on the
SETUID bit would work:


Why would you not use sudo?

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