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SCO Skills Test

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The contents of "file" will not be displayed because suid is ignored for shell scripts.

The suid is also ignored for shells. In olden days, you could copy /bin/sh to /bin/mysh, change it's owner to root, tag it as suid, and then you had an instant way to effectively be superuser without remembering the password (or caring if it had been changed). You can't do that anymore.