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Old 03-22-2006
is SUID disabled for shell
Hi,
I have two file in my directory. "catter" file contains "cat ./file". And "file" contails "Hi ashish". I have SUID bit set for catter file. But when a different user in my group runs file catter, shell displays "Permission denied" message.

I just want to know can use of suid bit be disable for shell/normal users?
or am I interpreting this in wrong way?

I am using HP-UX.

Quote:
$
$ ls -l
total 8
-rwsr-xr-x 1 ashishp smbnull 11 Mar 22 14:21 catter
-rw------- 1 ashishp smbnull 10 Mar 22 14:21 file
$
$ cat catter
cat ./file
$
$ cat file
Hi ashish
$
a different user in my group tries to run catter. He gets message "permission denied"

Quote:
$./catter
cat: Cannot open ./file: Permission denied

Any suggestion why this is happening.

Thanks in advance,
-Ashish
# 2  
Old 03-22-2006
Do the users attempting to execute the script `catter' have read &
execute permissions for the directory containing the script?
# 3  
Old 03-22-2006
In HP-UX, suid is inhibited for shell scripts.
# 4  
Old 03-22-2006
The directory has permission 755

Quote:
$ ls -ld dummy
drwxr-xr-x 2 ashishp smbnull 96 Mar 22 14:21 dummy
$
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