It's been a while, but if memory serves me right, SUID root shell scripts are not allowed on many UNIX's for security reasons. This fact may be configurable. Mike Bresnahan --- Jamie Ostrowski wrote: > I have spent the last several hours pouring through docs on suid and > racking my mind. My script isn't working. Here is a long listing of my > script: > > -rwsr-sr-- 1 root wheel 379 Dec 5 12:57 myprog > > The contents of my prog are: > > #!/bin/bash > > cat /root/file1; > > User Jamie is on the group wheel, but when jamie goes to execute myprog > the system qweefs like this: > > cat: /root/file1: Permission denied > > I am using Red Hat 6.2. As I am understanding the documentation, since > jamie is on wheel, when he executes this program, the program will run as > root, and if the file is running as root, it would have the file access > privelages as root. Am I wrong?? Evidently I am, but then it would seem to > be incongruent with what all my books are telling me. > I have also tried running myprog as root, and it works fine then. One last > thing I should include is a pic of my root directory where file1 is: > > drwxr-x--- 15 root root 4096 Dec 5 02:32 root > > and here is a long listing of file1: > > -rwxr-xr-- 1 root root 5 Dec 5 01:05 file1 > > - Jme > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org