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Programming problem



I wanted to run a shell script program that needs to run with root permissions, and I wanted to 
be able to start this script without su'ing. I tried to set the suid bit on the program, but I 
found out that the suid bit only works for binary executables. Then I wrote a simple c program 
that starts up the shell program through the system() call, and I chown the program to root and 
set the suid bit on it, but for some reason the shell still wouldn't run as root. What am I 
doing wrong and is there any way aroud this?
 
Thanks,
-Yossie

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