Re: Help with suid (bash)

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On Tuesday, May 10, 2022 10:21:00 AM Charles Curley wrote:
> Why the aversion to doing things as root? Why not just run your scripts
> as root? This is exactly the sort of thing that is reserved to root for
> reasons of security.

I may think about that some more, but it is a general aversion to being in 
root, or switching to root while I'm doing "ordinary" things (like accessing 
information on some mounted-on-demand LUKS partitions).

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Help with suid (bash) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-05-10 14:00 +0200
  Re: Help with suid (bash) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-05-10 14:20 +0200
  Re: Help with suid (bash) Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-05-10 16:30 +0200
    Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-05-10 18:10 +0200
      Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-05-10 21:10 +0200
        Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-05-10 21:30 +0200
      Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-05-11 01:20 +0200
        Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-05-11 03:10 +0200
        Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-05-11 05:10 +0200
          Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-05-11 07:10 +0200
            Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-05-11 18:10 +0200
              Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-05-11 20:30 +0200
                Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-05-12 01:00 +0200
        Re: Unlocking (remote/local), was Re: Help with suid (bash) Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-05-11 14:10 +0200
    Re: Help with suid (bash) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-05-10 18:50 +0200

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