Hi this is my assignment question and i need to submit it tomorrow. Can anybody tell the answer for this is correct or not.

Q) Use the find command to locate five setuid files on your system. For each file, explain why the setuid mechanism is necessary for the command to function properly.


My answer for the question i got is

find / -perm +4000 | ls -l

Some files are set with setuid file permissions because the users on system can execute binaary executables with temporary high level privilleges in order to do a specific job.

Can you guys say whether my answer is correct or not. If wrong please correct me where i am going wrong.

Thanks.

Reported as duplicate of https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...s-help-701516/

your answer is correct, but incomplete. I think you are supposed to tell for 5 of the files, why they need to be setuid root. For example, passwd is setuid root so users can change their own password, ping is setuid root because it needs to create raw sockets and so on.

I also think your command will not have the effect you want (in case you intend to pipe the files to ls). You are probably looking for something like this

for file in `find / -perm +4000`;do ls -l $file ;done

Ok--I think we've now closed all the duplicates...

palisetty;
Two things:

1. You told me earlier that all this was not homework, but here you are with an assignment due.

2. Please do not make multipe posts like this. One thread per subject.