Sv.2 suid bits

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>> On SV.2 (3b2, pc7300 (Safari)) suid bits do not work on shell scripts.  Am
>> I just silly or don't I remember them working on 2 other UN*X-ish (TNIX,
>> XENIX) environments?
>Suid bits on shell scripts don't work on any machine I have ever used. 
>This includes PDP-11/70, Vax, 3b20, U370, PC7300.  It is frustrating,
>but I have wound up making up a little C program which execs the shell. 
>The C program has the suid bit set...

I'm glad I didn't know this, because I had need of  some scripts that
were suid, so I wrote them and they worked! I am on a Masscomp,
which runs a blend of SysIII, SysV, 4.1, and 4.2.

Terry Poot
Nathan D. Maier Consulting Engineers
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