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Running shell scripts as root.

Subject: Running shell scripts as root.
From: PCWiz <email@hidden>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:31:55 -0600

I know this is a bad idea, but I'm not sure how else to do this.

I have an app that needs to set permissions on a lot of files on a USB stick. The obvious way to do this is to write a shell script and then execute it with elevated privileges. This is clearly not a safe way to do it as it could easily be exploited, but is there any better way to do this?

Basically I need to run the chown/chmod utilities and probably cp/mv/ mkdir as well using root privileges. What would be the best way to do this?

Thanks
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