Re: [Sheflug] running as root

[David Mitchell <nospam [at] fdgroup.co.uk>]

> setuid script works? doesn't here :) Just tried the obvious:
> 
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 	cat /etc/shadow

I belive you have to add an option like -p to the shell or it
refuses to run with differing real and effective uids. So something
like

#!/bin/sh -p
cat /etc/shadow

(This works for the Bourne shell on Solaris, it may be slightly different
for bash).

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