setuid root

[Tiago Batista]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:48:26 +0200
Patrick Useldinger <pu.news.001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tiago Simões Batista wrote:
> > The sysadmin already set the setuid bit on the script, but it
> > still fails when it tries to write to any file that only root has
> > write access to.
> 
> use sudo.
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Thank you, both fot you and for Ove Svensson.

I was looking for a simpler way, that required as little intervention as possible from the main sysadmin. Given the situation I am facing, I will probably use sudo, it keeps things cleaner...

Again, thank you

Tiago
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