[clue-tech] Using SUID to downgrade root's access

[Dave Brown]

Shell scripts in UNIX do not allow the SUID bit, this only works on 
executables. If you want to run a job as "nobody" from cron use the "su 
<username> -c " syntax.

Angelo Bertolli wrote:

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>
> Dennis J Perkins wrote:
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>> If you really need SUID, you could probably make a very simple C program
>> that will call the script, then set SUID on that program.  But is it
>> really necessary to use SUID?
>>  
>>
> No, I'm going to look into just running things in cron as another 
> user.  I remember doing that before... actually all I did was set up 
> root's crontab with sudo -u ... maybe I should do that again.
>
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