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Hi rbatte1

Thanks for your feedback.
I have been working with our system integration team to determine the type of storage and finally have decided on using external NAS Gold storage for the...

Hi rbatte1
I think the issue I have is different from what you have addressed here.
I am absolutely not concerned about how the clients in Site B access my files from Site A. They are already...

Thanks Jim and rbatte1 for your suggestions.

I could not reply earlier since I was weighing your options and checking what do we have available in our infrastructure.

Jim's idea of NFS/NAS is...

Hi,

I am working on an application which runs on an Informatica Red-Hat 5.10 Linux Server.
The application involves several Informatica ETL workflows which generate 100s of Text files with lot of...

Sure Bakunin, thats a good suggestion. I will look into feasibility of implementing that.
However that set aside, does anybody know if there is in fact a technical limit on the number of ACLs'...

I work on a distribution application on Linux which generates bulk reference data extract feeds and stores them on a Linux server. I have several consumer applications access the files stored on...

Hi Don,

Yes granting sudo access to the entire script would be the right solution. But as I had mentioned in thread #11 of this post this would not be practical in my case because we have around...

This Response is to both Don and Corona.
First to Don's response that I set the envfile to 640 and make only people who can see the envfile be part of the owner's group.
The requirement at my...

Hi Corona

The Key point here I was not aware of is that SUDO does not inherit shell options like -x. That helps thanks.

Since I do not have root access to modify /etc/sudoers at work I tested...

Don,
Like you mentioned when "" is used with the eval command or when ; is placed after the BASEPATH assignment in envfile.txt, xtrace output shows that BASH executes the commands one after the...

Hi Corona,

Yes you are right. I just didnot communicate right. What I meant was that Linux supports setuid bit for C/C++ binaries / Perl scripts. It doesnot support it for Java...

Hi Rudi, Don,

Thanks for your great Discoveries. Solution provided by Rudi is very easy to implement and it works even with the Perl file reader code I have. Solution provided by Don is also very...

Hi Don,

I am using perl script to read the envfile because eventually I would like this shell script to be used by other users who donot even have read access to /tmp/envfile.txt (using setuid...

Hi,

I am running this on Redhat 5.10
I have a simple test script called test.sh which has the following
contents and it uses the BASH shebang. ...

Hi MadeInGermany,

The shebang with the -p option does not help either.
Linux just adamantly wants to ignore LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable when the calling binary is setuid regardless of how high up...

Hello MadeInGermany,

As suggested by you i used env and here is an interesting observation
Inside testremove.ksh I added the following lines
#!/usr/bin/ksh
export...

I would like to compile a binary that doesnot depend on LD_LIBRARY_PATH as this binary will be setuid to owner and used by other users and since setuid doesnot support LD_LIBRARY_PATH making it...

Yes env variables are being exported. That is why when I print LD_LIBRARY_PATH has the right value. But I read online that the reason ldd cannot find the library file even though LD_LIBRARY_PATH has...

I chose the setuid option because with the sudoers option, for every new script we add, there would be dependency on the SA's adding the script entry to the sudoers file.
With the setuid option I am...

Yes the #!/usr/bin/ksh -p option will not work for me because the servers run SuSE 10.4 Linux

Thanks Peasant.
We have about 50 scripts like that. Does it mean I have to create a wrapper script for each of the 50 scripts which invokes those scripts using the C executable ?
Eg: for...

In our project we have several unix scripts that trigger different processes. These scripts write logs to a particular folder 'sesslogs', create output data files in a separate directory called...

Just Ice,

Inline with your suggestion d I came up with a way to encrypt the file using gpg (GNU Privacy guard) and then decrypting it.
'
(1) First encrypt it using the below command which...

Thanks for the clarification folks

I didnot know that setuid is not supported by Linux.
But I noticed that the /usr/bin/passwd binary has setuid set on Linux. Similarly ping program also has setuid bit set on Linux.
How is that...