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Old 11-07-2011
Others Running a script as owner
Hi All,

I have a script in which the contents of the script can be run only with Admin account (inst1).
the script has connecting to database and performing some routine database admin tasks. This script should be able to execute by non admin (devp2) user, but the script itself should be running as admin user. is there a way to do this? Not sure if we can do this using sticky bit (after granting execute to public on test.sh) tried chmod2777, but no luck, any Advise please? Appreciate your help, Thanks!

OS: AIX 6.1

-rwxr--r-- 1 Inst1 group1 104 Nov 07 16:50 test.sh

user devp2(group: group2) should be able to execute it
# 2  
Old 11-07-2011
You can use sudoers for this...
Have an entry like this in the /etc/sudoers file
Code:
devp2 ALL=(inst1)NOPASSWD:/full/path/to/script

Execute the script from devp2's login like this
Code:
sudo -u inst1 /full/path/to/the/script

HTH
--ahamed
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Old 11-07-2011
setuid doesn't work on scripts because of the way they're run with an interpreter instead of directly loaded and executed on the host processor.

You could give users permissions to run that script and only that script via sudo.

[edit] Curses, foiled again Smilie
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