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[Roland Mainz]

Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
> >> If you intened to support setuid shell scripts or execute only
> >> shell scripts (no read permission), you also need suid_exec.c.
> >
> >Uh-oh... I forgot that thing (until now... I wrote a giant yellow
> >"PostIt" paper and glued it on my whiteboard) ... thanks for the
> >hint...  :-)
> 
> "suid_exec.c"?  Is this the set-uid root helper to run set-uid scripts?
> 
> Solaris does not need one.

In theory... yes... in reality I never tested this. It may work but I
have no clue how details like the isaexec chain may affect it (or not...
I guess nothing bad will happen but to be honestly I completely forgot
the setid-script thing and never tested this).

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Bye,
Roland

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