> text deleted... > (Not to get into the set-UID shell-script argument again. ;-) > 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- A shell script runs under the uid of the account executing it. I don't think there is any way for a script or any other subprocess to know whether it is being executed by any given account or by an account using a setuid program. So the script suid has to take preference. Unless you ignore suid on scripts altogether. Quentin