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Old 12-29-2005   #6 (permalink)
anomie
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For whatever strange reason, Linux only honors SUID/SGID on a.out and ELF files, not interpreted files...
Can't seem to locate a credible reference at the moment, but I remember reading that as of some kernel revision, support was dropped for the SUID bit on interpreted files (e.g. shell scripts).

The reason was/is that it is too difficult to harden these sufficiently.
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