[comp.unix.questions] CHMOD 4755 doesn't work

robertd@ncoast.UUCP (Robert DeMarco) (12/08/86)

 I seem to be having a problem with
file protectiom, I am running a bbs-
like program on my system and I want
, for the duration of my program, for
the user to have the same accsess 
privlages to my files, because I need
to accsess a secret file in the bourne
shell login. (But it is read by me only
thats why I have to change the uid to
me).

 CAn any one help???

     thanx
       [> Rd

ps) Is there a goto like statement in
bourne shell?

pdb@sei.cmu.edu.UUCP (12/10/86)

I've never had an problem using set-uid programs; chmod 4755 should do
it.  Of course, this only works for *programs* (i.e., something that has
come out of a compiler).  You can't set-uid a shell script (Well, actually,
most versions of 4.2 and 4.3 do let you do this, but you really *don't* want
to, as it causes a massive security hole; see the recent discussion on
comp.unix.wizards).

--Pat.