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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Setuid not working in Linux as script fails to write to file. Post 302826357 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 26th of June 2013 11:04:55 AM
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2. Linux does not support suid scripts.
Yes it does, but you have to consider the filesystem it is in though. Many installations only allow SUID scripts in OS filesystems (/, /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin depending how you have them mounted) and as such you may find that /home (or wherever) is mounted with that disabled.

Change to the directory where the script is and do the following:-
Code:
df -k .
grep "filesystem name" /etc/fstab

Remember to escape the forward slash in the grep command, e.g.
Code:
grep "\/my\/filesystem" /etc/fstab

What do you have in the fourth column? Actually, post the whole line.



Robin
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UMOUNT(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						 UMOUNT(8)

NAME
umount -- unmount filesystems SYNOPSIS
umount [-fv] special | node umount -a | -A [-fv] [-h host] [-t type] DESCRIPTION
The umount command calls the unmount(2) system call to remove a special device or the remote node (rhost:path) from the filesystem tree at the point node. If either special or node are not provided, the appropriate information is taken from the fstab(5) file. The options are as follows: -a All the filesystems described in fstab(5) are unmounted. -A All the currently mounted filesystems except the root are unmounted. -f The filesystem is forcibly unmounted. Active special devices continue to work, but all other files return errors if further accesses are attempted. The root filesystem cannot be forcibly unmounted. -h host Only filesystems mounted from the specified host will be unmounted. This option is implies the -A option and, unless otherwise spec- ified with the -t option, will only unmount NFS filesystems. -t type Is used to indicate the actions should only be taken on filesystems of the specified type. More than one type may be specified in a comma separated list. The list of filesystem types can be prefixed with ``no'' to specify the filesystem types for which action should not be taken. For example, the umount command: umount -a -t nfs,hfs umounts all filesystems of the type NFS and HFS. -v Verbose, additional information is printed out as each filesystem is unmounted. FILES
/etc/fstab filesystem table SEE ALSO
unmount(2), fstab(5), mount(8) HISTORY
A umount command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. 4th Berkeley Distribution May 8, 1995 4th Berkeley Distribution
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