Re: Perl CGI script running as root is unable to do rm, chmod and su

[jimisola@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Jimisola Laursen)]

Hi,


Sorry, I was not clear enough. No the scripts are executed as root.
I've verified it since the output contains:

USER: root
USER in script2: root

Regards,
Jimisola

Wijnand Wiersma wrote:
> Jimisola Laursen schreef:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm trying make one script (script1) call another script (script2) and
> > have the output from script2 returned.
> > My initial problem was that script2 needs to be executed as root, so
> > I've set the setuid and setgid bit on script1 (script2 unchanged):
> So script1 is executed as regular user? In that case you are either
> running Linux or the partition is mounted with nosuid. In both cases
> scripts are not allowed to run suid.
>
> Regards,
> Wijnand