[YLUG] Re: Help please: running scripts remotely / ssh and suid

[Robert Hulme]

> Where I work we have an Oracle server which a DBA has a login on but
> the developers do not have a login on.
OK, sorry for spamming everyone, but I've solved it... :-P

You can use perl to change the effective uid as follows:

#!/usr/bin/perl
delete @ENV{'IFS', 'CDPATH', 'ENV', 'BASH_ENV'};
$ENV{PATH}='/bin:/usr/bin';

# Set real and effective uids
my $uid = getpwnam("dba");
$> = $uid;
$< = $uid;

system('ssh -i /home/dba/.ssh/id_dsa oracleserver "mkdir foo"')


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