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Old 04-30-2008
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Originally Posted by grial View Post
You might also SETUID the mksysb binary.
Sorry, but "mksysb" is a shellscript. See the output of "file /usr/bin/mksysb".

Anyways, i suppose we agree upon "sudo" being by far the preferable solution.

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