[fedora-my] suid and guid

[Izhar Firdaus]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Umarzuki Mochlis <umarzuki at gmail.com> wrote:
> i have 2 user (user1 and user2)
> on user1 i copied firefox into its home dir
> $ cp /usr/bin firefox .

/usr/bin/firefox is a shellscript

"Due to the increased likelihood of security flaws, many operating
systems ignore the setuid attribute when applied to executable shell
scripts." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid

try something else .. if doesnt work, probably its SELinux (if u have
it enabled)

>
> then i set suid to firefox as user1
> $ chmod u+s firefox
>
> but i get permision denied when i ran firefox as user2
>
> is this feature disabled on f12?
>
> or maybe my method/understanding of it is off?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Umarzuki Mochlis
> http://debmal.my
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