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- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: OK, I give in, how *does* an X console work?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.231839.5327@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 23:18:39 GMT
- References: <13602@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
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- mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie) writes:
- >everything is hunkydory, but if I have it in a setuid shell script
- >(owned by root) then I get...
-
- I don't think setuid shell scripts work in Linux (for a reason, I
- might add: they are security holes). Perhaps you could write a small
- program to do it?
-
- --
- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi)
- MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it.
-