SUID/SGID Scripts

Article ID: 263
Last updated: 25 Jun, 2015

Users are prohibited from creating and using privileged SUID and/or SGID scripts under their home, scratch, /nobackup, and /tmp filesystems.

SUID scripts (that is, with permission u+s) and SGID scripts (with permission g+s) could allow someone (other than the owner) to gain unauthorized access to users' files, posing a security hazard.

WARNING: The high end computing systems at the NAS facility are configured to disable the execution of any SUID/SGID shell scripts.

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