Hello Monks,
I have the following lines in a script 

#!/bin/perl

$path = "/home/private/commondata/mydir";
$path =~ /(.+)/;
$path = $1;
print $path;
system "mkdir","-p","$path";

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I have done "chmod +s myscript" to set the setuid bit, and the script is in /home/private area with the permissions of "private" itself.I want that when any user runs the script, it sohuld run with the permission of "private" and make the directory commondata/mydir.

But when i run the script, i have the folowing error mkdir: "/home/private/commondata/mydir": Permission denied

I dont understand , as if i am correct after setting the setuid bit, the script will have the permission to write in the area with "private" permission!!!!

Thanks for your help in Advance

20040623 Edit by Corion: Added formatting

In reply to permisson prob in suid script by Anonymous Monk

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