Re: suid

[Colin Leroy <colin colino net>]

On Wed, 29 May 2002 10:25:10 +0200 Olaf Fr±czyk <olaf cbk poznan pl>
wrote:

> > I'm trying to write a program that modifies the crontab file of a
> > user, these files are readable only by root, so as gtk can't iniciate
> > bit suid programs, how can i carry out my goal???
> Hi,
>
> 1. Use sudo. I think it should work.
> or
> 2. Add user you want to modify the file to group which owns the file,
> and add write permission for group. or
> 3. If you have filesystem with ACLs (like XFS) just add ACL for this
> user with write permission. or
> 4. Hack the library. ;)

5. Use consolehelper. I don't really know how it works, but gnorpm-auth
uses it.
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