Re: Allowing users to execute shell scripts without seeing password

> One solution you might consider is to store the password in another file
> that is read in by the setuid script.
> As the user executes the script, which he/she has read permissions on,
> the script can read an encrypted/plain text file that is only readable by
> the owner.

May be I'm missing something but how this case differs from the previous solution: script with setuid without read access?

Regards,
Dimitre

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