Bash scripting question

[David A. Bandel]

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On Tue, 27 May 2003 13:49:56 -0400 (EDT)
<listmail at rotundus.com> wrote:

> Roger Oberholtzer wrote,
> > # This should echo command line parameters (or function paramaeters
> > # if #
> > placed in a shell function), one per line.
> >
> >
> > for param in $*
> > do
> > 	echo $param
> > done
> 
> Thanks to you and also David Bandel for the help.  I was hoping for a
> way in which I could reference a particular argument by number, but I
> suppose that I can accomplish the same by keeping a separate counter.
> 
> The next silly question, how to get something running w/ setuid root.

You cannot run a script SUID.  Think about it a minute and you?ll see
that you don?t ever want that capability.

The script runs and calls other programs/built-ins.

You could always code the thing up in Perl and use Perl?s SUID
interpreter.  Or use C.  Or use sudo to execute the script.

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Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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