Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner wrote:
>  Carsten Haese <carsten@[...].com> typed

> > I don't think that that has anything to do with Linux or not. The
> > script is not the actual executable, hence its suid bit is irrelevant.
>  
>  I don't think so. From what I know, the script is passed as executable
>  to the kernel loader, which interprets the shebang and feeds the script
>  through the correct interpreter. So the kernel loader sees the script
>  itself as executable instead of the interpreter binary. I've heard of
>  other Unix systems, which handle this differently (meaning that the
>  SUID bit on scripts has an effect), but I may be wrong.

Yes, the kernel parses #! but the suid-ness is still controlled by the
target interpreter (i.e. python executable). At least BSD systems also
behave this way.
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