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achiu

achiu

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Oct 23, 2002
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I am using perl to write a menu script. In this menu, there are options that you would need higher level access like root to access these commands. One option is the user can reboot the system. But there are some other commands, I need root permissions to execute. What is the best way to go around this?
 
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You will probably have to have the script run as suid root or as a uid or gid with enough permission to execute the command you want. This can be a big security hole.

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