Established method to enable suid scripts?

[Daniel Staal]

--As of May 10, 2011 5:54:04 PM -0700, Chris Telting is alleged to have 
said:

> 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.

--As for the rest, it is mine.

It should just work, in most cases.  (I think there are a couple of base 
programs that _require_ being suid to work.  Otherwise you wouldn't be able 
to log in to a box...)

One thought: What's the output of 'mount' for the slice you are trying to 
run this script from?  (Suid can be blocked on a per-mountpoint basis.)

Daniel T. Staal

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