Inherit root permission
mlh at zip.com.au
mlh at zip.com.au
Sat Mar 22 03:28:22 EST 2003
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 09:43:44 -0500
"Robin Scott" <rfscott at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> I have a situation where the main script /application will be part of the
> sudo list so its executing with root permissions. I want to verify two
> items:
> 1. Does the child process inherit the root permissions? I believe
> the answer is yes.
> 2. If another script/application gets started from the main
> application, does this also inherit the root permissions? Or would this
> script/application need to be part of the sudo list.
Robin,
1 & 2 are the same thing, a child process.
And the answer is yes, a child process inherits
the owner, in this case root.
Matt
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