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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers set uid question w/ backup script Post 5725 by Perderabo on Tuesday 21st of August 2001 12:54:02 PM
Old 08-21-2001
Very few versions of unix are left that allow suid scripts. Any version of unix that allows suid scripts has a serious security problem.

You need to look at a program called "sudo" that can allow non-root users to run scripts as root in a secure manner.
 

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ikisite-wrapper(1)					      General Commands Manual						ikisite-wrapper(1)

NAME
ikisite-wrapper - suid wrapper for ikisite SYNOPSIS
ikisite-wrapper subcommand options DESCRIPTION
ikisite-wrapper is a wrapper around ikisite. It is designed to be safely made suid root, though it is not currently suid by default. A few ikisite subcommands can be run using the wrapper without any authorisation at all. These include: create, branch, list, sitelookup, checklock, updatecustomersite, and enabledns. So making the wrapper suid allows any user to create a site. Other ikisite subcommands can only be run using the wrapper by users who specify a nonce in the IKISITE_NONCE environment variable. These include: delete, changesetup, domains, and deletenonce. A site's current nonces are stored in its .ikisite-nonce file. A nonce can be generated by root or the site's user via using the creat- enonce subcommand, but it's usually generated by passing --createnonce to the create or branch subcommands. This allows anyone to create or branch a site and then use the nonce to allow further configuration of it (and delete it if something goes wrong). Subcommands that can be called by the wrapper either without or with a nonce should be sure to fully validate their inputs. SEE ALSO
ikisite(1) AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joey@ikiwiki.info> ikisite-wrapper(1)
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