setuid Help

devinWhalen · 12-03-2003, 09:38 AM

Hello,

I want to change the setuid of a file to root...how do I do this? I know I have to use chmod and the option is `s` but I don't know how to put all this together, the man pages are not clear.

Thanks for the help

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jkobrien · 12-03-2003, 09:45 AM

Hi,

It's chmod u+s <filename>

John

devinWhalen · 12-03-2003, 09:57 AM

so if I wanted to change crazymofo.pl setuid to root I would do:
chmod u+s crazymofo.pl
Wait.....I just got it. I didn't understand what setuid was until now! It just hit me. I thought I had to give setuid a value like root, but setuid allows the file to change to any username....right? Thanks for your help.

Later