From: Michael Neuman <mcn@c3serve.c3.lanl.gov> This is a nice security feature, but is it a bug? <example deleted> Shouldn't suid run as root under the "script"? (Not to get into the set-UID shell-script argument again. ;-) How would you handle the situation where the script itself and the interpreter are BOTH set-UID? They're both integers. We can ADD them. No wait! We'll AVERAGE them. Clearly, the set-UID bit on one or the other must take precedence. Someone, somewhere decided that it would be the set-UID bit on the script. This was maybe the wrong decision, but it's the one we're stuck with, for the moment at least. ----- Fred Blonder fred@nasirc.hq.nasa.gov Hughes STX Corp. (301) 441-4079 7701 Greenbelt Rd. Greenbelt, Md. 20770