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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Setuid not working in Linux as script fails to write to file. Post 302826099 by Just Ice on Wednesday 26th of June 2013 02:09:03 AM
Old 06-26-2013
your example setuid files are binaries and not scripts btw ...


as for your issue ... (not advisable but an option nonetheless) ...

1. create generic database admin user like "sqadmin"
2. set sqadmin $HOME permissions to 700
3. write sqluser password into sqadmin's $HOME/.sqlpass
4. chmod 500 $HOME/.sqlpass
5. run crypt on $HOME/.sqlpass
6. in sqadmin's script, uncrypt $HOME/.sqlpass to read password and then recrypt
7. continue processing of sqadmin script

Last edited by Just Ice; 06-26-2013 at 03:12 AM.. Reason: fixed statement 1
 

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amt(1)								   User Commands							    amt(1)

NAME
amt - run abstract machine test SYNOPSIS
amt [-s] DESCRIPTION
The amt command is for use in a Common Criteria security certified system. The command is used to verify that the low level functions nec- essary to enforce the object reuse requirements of the Controlled Access Protection Profile are working correctly. /usr/bin/amt is a shell script that executes tests specific to your system. For a 32-bit system, the tests run as a 32-bit application. For a 64-bit system, the tests run twice; once as a 32-bit application and once as a 64-bit application. amt lists test results with a pass or fail for each test it performs, unless output is suppressed with the -s option. OPTIONS
The following option is supported: -s Suppresses output. EXIT STATUS
The following error values are returned: 0 All tests passed. >0 Count of the number of tests that failed. <0 Incorrect command line argument. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Committed | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
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