Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SUID

[Hinko Kocevar <hinko.kocevar@cetrtapot.si>]

ABCD wrote:
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> Hinko Kocevar wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to touch a file in /sbin during boot time
>> and would like to do that with a normal user by running
>> SUIDed shell script.
>> I have following script:
>> hinkok@alala /tmp $ cat test.sh 
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> touch /sbin/foo.bar
>> exit $?
>>
>> hinkok@alala /tmp $ sudo chmod +x test.sh 
>> hinkok@alala /tmp $ sudo chown root:root test.sh 
>> hinkok@alala /tmp $ sudo chmod +s test.sh 
>> hinkok@alala /tmp $ ls -l test.sh 
>> -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 32 Mar  2 09:27 test.sh
>> hinkok@alala /tmp $ sh -x test.sh 
>> + touch /sbin/foo.bar
>> touch: cannot touch `/sbin/foo.bar': Permission denied
>>
>> Can somebody help me with that?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Hinko
> 
> Linux does not support s[ug]id scripts, however, you can emulate the

Hmm, I was not aware of that..

> effect of it using sudo - in your shell script, do the following:
> 
>     #!/bin/sh
>     [ $(id -u) -ne 0 ] && exec sudo "$0" "$@"
> 
>     # put the rest of the script here
> 
> and add a line to /etc/sudoers that reads:
> 
>     ALL ALL=NOPASSWD: /path/to/script
> 
> This will allow any user (the first "ALL") from any host (the second
> "ALL") to run /path/to/script as root:root without any authentication,
> by simply calling /path/to/script (or just "script", if it happens to be
> in the $PATH).
> 
> NB - I havn't actually tried this recently, so I might be wrong on some
> of the specifics, but the general idea should hold.
> 
> Also, if you want to restrict *who* can run the script, you can change
> the first "ALL" to something else, see sudoers(5) for details - also you
> can restrict *where* it can be run by changing the second "ALL".
> 
> If you want to make the user enter *their own* password, remove the
> "NOPASSWD:".  If you want to make the user enter *root's* password, read
> the man page - I don't remember the option, but I know there is one.
> 

Thanks for detailed info!

Best regards,
Hinko

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