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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!tplinfm From: barrett@lucy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan Barrett) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Strange behavier on #! interpretation (Secure SUID scripts) Date: 21 Jun 1993 14:29:12 +0200 Organization: Elec. Eng., Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa Lines: 9 Message-ID: <2049io$hmk@lucy.ee.und.ac.za> References: <1vjtib$725@lucy.ee.und.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.ee.und.ac.za In article <1vjtib$725@lucy.ee.und.ac.za> I wrote: >I recommend Maarten Litmaath's "indir" wrapper, available from all good >comp.sources.unix archives. indir is a small SUID root program, and Oops. indir should not be installed suid or sgid to anything. It relies on the operating system to honour the suid and sgid bits on the script. (It seems to work under NetBSD 0.8.) --apb (Alan Barrett)