On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 03:09:35PM -0800, Gilbert, Joseph wrote: > There are two other standard ways to have scripts run with root privileges. > > 1) For automated tasks, schedule it in root's crontab. 'man crontab' for > more info > > 2) Use setuid for scripts or programs that are to be run by users who need > root perms to perform a specific task programmed into that script. You need > to think about security on this one though. See 'man setuid' and 'man > chmod' for more info. Setuid doesn't work on scripts. You have to make the shell that runs the script setuid... which you REALLY DON'T want to do! -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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