partition info in perl without root access

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:36:18PM -0500, John Macdonald wrote:
> In cases where there isn't such a simple answer, you can write
> a front-end script to the program you want to make available
> in limited fashion.  So, instead of allowing fdisk from sudo,
> you allow a fdpart script that calls fdisk with the right args
> and filters the result into a nice format, but the script
> is very careful about limiting its use and transmission of
> user-provided arguments, so the use has no direct control over
> the set of flags and arguments used in the fdisk invokation
> that actually does the underlying work.

Except all sane unix systems do not permit suid scripts.  You would have
to write a wrapper program that isn't just a script.

Lennart Sorensen
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