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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with Shell Script on sudo Post 302555049 by Corona688 on Tuesday 13th of September 2011 05:17:58 PM
Old 09-13-2011
If you can't use sudo and can't use su and can't use setuid, you're not going to be able to run it as root. They'd likely consider it circumventing their security rules in any case.

Why does the script need root? Maybe the permissions on whatever it needs can be altered so it doesn't.
 

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

checksecurity

CHECKSECURITY(8)					      System Manager's Manual						  CHECKSECURITY(8)

NAME

       checksecurity - Run a collection of simple system checks

SYNOPSIS

       checksecurity

DESCRIPTION

       The checksecurity command runs a small collection of simple system checks which are designed to catch a few common security issues.  check-
       security is run by cron in a daily basis.

CONFIGURATION

       The checksecurity.conf file defines several configuration variables: MAILTO, CHECK_DISKFREE, CHECK_PASSWD and CHECK_SETUID LOGDIR.  Each is
       described below.

       The  checksecurity program works with a collection of plugins which are located in /usr/share/checksecurity and are configured individually
       by their own configuration file.

       CHECK_PASSWD If this is set to TRUE then the check-passwd script will be invoked.  This script is designed to report upon  system  accounts
       which  have  no passwords.  CHECK_DISKFREE If this is set to TRUE then the check-diskfree script will be invoked and will allow an alert to
       be sent if there is any mounted partition is running short on disk space.  CHECK_SETUID If this is set to TRUE then the check-setuid script
       will be invoked, this will compare the setuid binaries upon the system to those that existed previously and show the differences.

FILES

       /etc/checksecurity.conf
	      checksecurity configuration file

SEE-ALSO
       See also check-diskfree(8), check-setuid(8), and check-passwd(8)

Debian Linux							  2 February 1997						  CHECKSECURITY(8)
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