Re: Sticky permissions on files...

["Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@ieee.org>]

On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 21:59, Ken Keefe wrote:
> What is the deal???

The deal is that your computer doesn't let you be stupid so easily.  ;->

Long story short, there is a difference between setting a _binary_ as
suid and a _script_.  Long story short, your _login_ shell is _not_
running as root, hence why whoami reports who is logged into the _login_
shell, and why lines in a script still run as you.

Consider using the rcs tools (ci, co, etc...) to allow regular users to
change system-wide configuration files.  Users _still_ need write access
to the directory, but it works very, very well (even when the directory
is set to sticky bit).

Otherwise, sudo exists for reasons as well.



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