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This article is from the the Brief Linux FAQ (BLFAQ) Maintained by Neil Zanella nzanella@ganymede.cs.mun.ca

027. I've tried to create a shell script and made it setuid root so the users can execute it. But no matter what I do, it doesn't execute with root privilege. Why?

Shell scripts are a notorious security hole. To protect you, the kernel purposely ignores setuid and setgid in scripts. Create a C or Pearl program to do the task.

 

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