Re: setuid from shellscript isn't permanent

[Bob Proulx]

Mr Aras wrote:
> $ ./setuid_test_script.sh
> mode of `/nfsroot/bin/busybox' changed to 4755 (rwsr-xr-x)
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 515956 2008-07-18 11:46 /nfsroot/bin/busybox
> 
> $ ls /nfsroot/bin/busybox
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 515956 2008-07-18 11:45 /nfsroot/bin/busybox

With only this information I would have to guess that even though you
have a command that it doing the chmod one way that there must be
another command that is changing it back.

Try running with 'bash -x ./setuid_test_script.sh' in order to trace
your script commands.  I expect to see that there is another one that
you are not expecting that is running.

Bob