I got the same uid and euid even though the file belongs to root and has the suid bit set. Does anybody know how to make a test case to let getuid() and geteuid() return different results? Thanks.
$ cat main.py #!/usr/bin/env python3 import os print(os.getuid()) print(os.geteuid()) $ dir total 4.0K -rwsr-xr-x 1 root staff 154 2021/02/02-10:48:27 main.py $ ./main.py 504 504 $ id
EDIT: I tried a C program. uid and euid are still the same.
$ cat main.c // vim: set noexpandtab tabstop=2: #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <stdio.h> int main() { uid_t uid = getuid(); uid_t euid = getuid(); printf("%dn", uid); printf("%dn", euid); } $ ls -l ./main.exe -rwsr-xr-x 1 root dialout 16656 Feb 2 12:14 ./main.exe $ ./main.exe 504 504
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Answer
Typo!
uid_t euid = getuid();
should read
uid_t euid = geteuid();
Then the C program will work. Don’t make setuid #!
scripts. That’s not implemented for security reasons.
The suidperl
story contains within it the description of why setuid won’t work on #!
scripts.