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Re: [cobalt-users] setuid Error



On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Certihost Web Hosting wrote:

> Hi am have a small question.  I need a script to run at root level, but I am 
> getting and error when I do this.  I chmoded the script 4755 and whe I try 
> to run it I get the error "Can't do setuid".  Anyone know a fix for this, or 
> am I just doing somthing wrong?

The really important part of SUID , or 'Set-User_ID is often the user id
;)  {did you chown the program to a legal user/group?}

ps: on Raq's, not all mounted partitions allow suid binaries to exist...

gsh