Setuid root? 1

[dsullinger]

I have a application that when I try and execute it as a standard user it says "This program can only be run by root, or it must be setuid root"

What does it mean when it says "setuid root"?

Thanks

 

[comtec17]

suid is a special bit to a file to allow it to execute with root. It will look something like: r--sr-xr-x.

 

[dsullinger]

Ok, how do I set this?

 

[SamBones]

Like this...

    chown root programname
    chmod 4755 programname

Of course you need to be root to do these commands.

Hope this helps.

 

[dsullinger]

This worked great! Thank you very much!

 

[comtec17]

A star for you SamBones since you answered before me...

 

[SamBones]

Thanks for the star, but be very careful what you do this to. If you do these commands to something like "[tt]/bin/ksh[/tt]", then every Korn shell user is [tt]root[/tt] as soon as they log in.

Hope this helps.