From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Reimer Subject: Re: Script as root Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:11:52 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D99C948.9020704@arrl.net> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20021001085016.02c818f0@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Ray Olszewski Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org suid bit on a script is ignored, isn't it? -jdr- Ray Olszewski wrote: > Yes. You want to set the suid bit on it and have it owned by root. "man > chmod" (or maybe other chmod documentation) for the details. > > At 09:55 AM 10/1/02 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: > >> I have a backup script that mounts a drive on my xp workstations. Is >> there a way I can set this script to run as root so that I do not have >> to su every time I want to run it? > > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the > odds!"-------- > Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo > Palo Alto, California, USA ray@comarre.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs