Re: Help!How can I run ontape utility by other?

Correction: sued is a Freudian Slip. It should be "sudo". Vic Glass wrote: > Knowing a little more about the 'other user' would be helpful. But here > are some things that will work (and I know some of them are out of the > question): > > 1. Give the other user the informix password. > 2. Use sued, which is freeway that allows limited execution of commands > by others. > 3. Write a simple C program that (1) changed id to Informix and (b) > executes ontape. After program is compiled, change the mode to 4755. > This C program would look something like this (this flew off my fingers > and is not tested): > > define <stdio.h> > define <limits.h> > define <stdlib.h> > > define INFX_UID ?????? /if* fill in the questions marks with > actual id if*/ > > main(int argc, char** argv) > { > char *informixdir; > chart ontape[PATH_MAX]; > > if ((informixdir = getenv("INFORMIXDIR")) == NULL) > { > fprintf(stderr, "INFORMIXDIR not set\\n"); > exit(1); > } > > sprintf(ontape, "%s/bin/ontape", informixdir); > > setuid(INFX_UID); > execv(ontape, argv); > fprintf(stderr, "execv failed, errno=%d\\n", errno); > exit(1); > } > > After compilingf this program, chmod on the a.out to 4755. When the user > executes this it will do ontape as informix. > > BUT, before you do any of this, I would want to know the WHOLE > situation. Perhaps it can be solved without brining out the big guns. > > reborn wrote: > > > My project has a requirement. > > > > I want other user to run ontape utility! > > But ontape can only be run by informix user > > > > how can I do it? > > > > please give me some advise!