Hi, I'm having a problem on Debian Woody: I cannot seem to be able to
correctly use the SUID attribute.

Let's suppose I'm in /root and have a simple "test" script, for which the
SUID attribute is set:

localhost:~# pwd
/root

localhost:~# ll ./test
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 29 ott 13 16:48 ./test

localhost:~# cat ./test
#! /bin/bash
touch ./test_ok


It works fine when I launch it as root, but not when launching it as a
different user:

localhost:~# ./test

localhost:~# ll ./test*
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 29 ott 13 16:48 ./test
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 ott 13 16:54 ./test_ok

localhost:~# rm ./test_ok
rm: remove `./test_ok'? y

localhost:~# su goofy

localhost:/root$ ./test
touch: creating `./test_ok': Permission denied


It worked fine on Mandrakelinux, and this makes me suppose I'm just
missing something very stupid... but what?
Does it have anything to do with sudoers? I don't think so, /etc/sudoers
is the same as the one on Mandrakelinux...

Thanks in advance.

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On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:05:30 +0200, Marco De Vitis
<starless@spin.it> wrote:
> Hi, I'm having a problem on Debian Woody: I cannot seem to be able to
> correctly use the SUID attribute.
>
> Let's suppose I'm in /root and have a simple "test" script, for which the
> SUID attribute is set:
>
I don't know why it works on Mandrake, but the suid attribute is usually
ignored on scripts.



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Il 13/10/2004, alle ore 18:52, Bill Marcum ha scritto:

> I don't know why it works on Mandrake, but the suid attribute is usually
> ignored on scripts.

Ouch! I'm afraid you're right, I've found some info about it... it seems
this behaviour is configured in the kernel, so that might be why it worked
on Mandrake.
Thanks.

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