Sudo from scripts
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Nov 18 15:39:04 UTC 2008
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> The ability to do what? Give root ownership to a script? It is
> unchanged. Once again: only root can change ownership.
>
> In any case, the owner of the script is only security-relevant in two
> cases: 1) if it allows someone to edit the script who normally couldn't,
> or 2) if the script is setuid. Of course it could also change who can
> *execute* the script, but if it's not setuid they'll be doing it as
> themselves, not as the owner.
>
Does setuid work on scrips? I know it did not in the past, but I
have not checked to see if that has changed.
Mikkel
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