Bash scripting question

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BTW, I also tried writing a little wrapper program in C just in case there
was a problem with executing scripting setuid root.  This however, didn't
help.

David Aikema

> The next silly question, how to get something running w/ setuid root.
>
> I have a little test script which has the following contents:
> ---
> #!/bin/bash
> set | grep UID
> ---
>
> Anyways, the file is owned by root and I chmod'ed it a number of ways
> (a+s, 4711, 4755), all of which should by my understanding make it
> setuid root.  However, if I execute this script as a non-root user the
> script will spit out a non-root userid.
>
> I suppose that my question is the following: is the script actually
> executing with an effective user id of root, and if so why is it
> spitting out a non-root uid and euid?  Is UID only set in a login shell?