Questions tagged [setuid]
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Elevated privileges for non-modifiable install script
I need to give permission to a local user to run an installation script that requires root privilege. So I created a special group in which this user is a member of and gave the permissions to the install script as follows:
# chown -R root:grpx…
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Setuid not working on Solaris
I have a Perl script marked setuid, but when I run it, it says I don't have permission to do so. I am running Solaris 10. This works on another system but I can't tell whats different. What am I doing wrong?
$ ls -l
total 16
-r-sr-x--- 1 root …
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Prevent setuid from dropping setcap user privileges (VirtualBox)
I'm trying to run a web server from a headless, NAT'd VirtualBox guest. VirtualBox needs to bind to port 80, but the only way to do so is by running VirtualBox as root. To get around this, I tried using setcap, but the VirtualBox process is SUID…
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How does MySQL run as user "_mysql" on Mac?
On Mac, MySQL seems to save data as the "_mysql" user. Can somebody please explain how this is achieved. I would have expected the MySQL server application (mysqld) to have the setuid flag set, so that it would run as _mysql, but this isn't the…
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Using setuid in a Shell Script on Ubuntu 20.04
So I have a Laravel PHP app on Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04. I have a simple deploy.sh script that will:
Put Laravel into maintenance mode, so it returns a 503 error if anyone visits the site
Pulls down the current source from github using a read-only…
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setuid not working as expected
I have a node js script that listens on a certain port.
If this script receives a json file it needs to execute a deploy script in a users home dir.
The node script runs under node_user.
The homedir is user_b.
I set up an acl so that user…
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