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From: [e-mail] (Markus Hirt)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Can "normal" users mount under Solaris 2.X
Date: 23 Jan 93 21:02:26
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In-reply-to: [e-mail]'s message of Wed, 20 Jan 1993 16:22:11 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Joel D. Flatt) writes:

>   Under SunOS 4.X I was able to allow non-root users to mount and umount
>   filesystems by having them execute the [u]mount command in a shell
>   script where the owner of the script is root and the setuid bit is set.
>   This does not appear to work for Solaris 2.1.

It is generally 'unsecure' to have shellscripts setuid root. So it might be
possible that setuid for scripts was disabled in Solaris. You may try
to write a little C program doing the same as your shellscript and
setuid the executables of this one.

Markus




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+ Institute for Thermal Turbomachinery     +                                    +
+ University of Karlsruhe, Germany     +                                    +
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