> > The part you missed in Bill's email "Write a shell script that is  
> > setuid root" is the most important.
> >     
> 
>  Except that telling users who don't know what suid means
>  to write suid root shell scripts (doubtful advice at best
>  even when given to experienced system programmers) is a
>  recipe for disaster security-wise.
>    
Just as an aside - isn't it true that many/most/all (???) Unix/Linux 
installs are set to disallow setuid *scripts*. It must be a binary, I 
think (which obviously then can start a script etc etc).

ken1