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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!portal.gmu.edu!bugs.aditech.com!gmann From: gmann@bugs.aditech.com (Glen W. Mann) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Does setuid work??? Date: 29 Apr 1996 22:08:29 GMT Organization: ADI Technology Corporation Alexandria VA Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4m3ekt$7ar@portal.gmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.5.164.100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I have a script (perl 5) which needs to reset owner and permissions for a directory tree and its (harmless nuisance) files. I've got the script set to -rwsr-xr-x 1 root bin 1234 somedate/time FixFiles The script starts with #!/usr/bin/perl that is no switches. I'm using the perl chmod and chown functions. The script only works if I run it as root. As another user, it does nothing (unless of course the permissions allow it). Perhaps I am ignorant to the ways of setuid? The documentation is a little sketchy for this. Can I do what I want? Any help for setuid? Thanks -Glen gmann@bugs.aditech.com