Hi,<br><br>I set the uid bit of a shell script (chmod u+s script.sh)<br>and made root is the owner of the script. <br>In this script I create a new user and start the passwd session to set his password.<br><br>The passwd routine however asks for the current user passwd, so it seems that it's not root running this command.<br><br>Did I mis interpret the setUID scope somehwere ??
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Hi John,<br><br>This is disabled for shell scripts under AiX (somewhat annoyingly).<br><br>Get 'round it like this:<br><br>Write your shell script, make sure it's only readable, writable, executable by root.<br><br>Write a "wrapper" program in C that just does an 'execve' of your shell script. Call the shell script using an absolute path.<br><br>Make sure the wrapper executable is only readable, writable, executable by root. <br><br>Make the wrapper executable suid.<br><br> <p>Mike<br><a href=mailto:michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com>michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com</a><br><a href= Cargill's Corporate Web Site</a><br>
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