Re: "setuid(UID)" and "chmod 4550" misbehaving

From: John Summerfield (debian_at_ComputerDatasafe.com.au)
Date: 06/22/04

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    Will Trillich wrote:

    >TASK: allow USER1 to run a program AS USER2.
    >SOLUTION: setuid bit (in theory, right?)
    >PROBLEM: theory not matching execution...
    >
    >we've got a little C program that must be RUN AS a certain user
    >(cyrus) BY another user (www-data) so we figured turning on the
    >SETUID bit would work:
    >
    >

    Why would you not use sudo? 

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