Getting SuperUser Authority From Within Running Python Program
Alex Martelli aleax at Sun Jan 26 16:39:40 CET 2003  Tim
Daneliuk wrote: > I am curious about one thing you said - that
setuid is ok for selected > (compiled) programs but not scripts.
If the script has appropriate > limitations on who can modify
it, why is setuid/setgid worse for > scripts than compiled
programs?  A good overview of Unix and Linux security issues is:
In particular, some of the specific issues with setuid scripts,
and why Linux simply ignores the setuid bit on scripts, are
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