Why not setuid on shell scripts?

[Dave Bloom]

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Someone alluded to this in another article, but why doesn't
setuid work on shell scripts? What kind of security threat
does it pose??

Please reply by mail.... I'm sure all most of you folks al-
ready know why....

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