Established method to enable suid scripts?

[Chris Telting]

I've googled for over an hour.

I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs 
that are currently fixed.  Suid in and of itself is a security issue.  
But if you are using suid it it should work; I don't want to use a 
kludge and I don't want to use sudo.  I'm hoping it's a setting that is 
just disabled by default.