vbsu

Synopsys

Vbsu is a little program which allow you to call scripts without the need of entering a password.

Syntax

vbuser script scripts_args

Security aspects and vbuser

vbuser is a setuid program and accordingly can execute scripts with root rights.

In order to avoid security problems, the followings checks are perofrmed:

• The user must be a member od the vbusers group.
• The script must be owned by root
• The script shall only be readable by root
• The group for the file mus be vbosusers

Compiling vbsu

Call from a terminal "make vbsu"

Installation

copy vbsu to a directory of your choice, for example /usr/local/bin.
Set the owner and rights as follows:

chwon root /usr/local/bin/vbsu
chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/vbsu

Author

Jean-Jacques Sarton jj.sarton@t-online.de
http://xwtools.automatix.de

Licence

You have the rights to modify, redistribute, ... this without any restrictions.