SUID not working?

On Ubuntu 16.04.1:

test.sh script:

#!/bin/bash
IAM=$(whoami)
ID=$(id -u $IAM)
echo "${IAM}"
echo "${ID}"
Andromeda $ ls -al | grep test.sh
-rwsrwxrwx 1 pkaramol pkaramol 71 Δεκ 8 07:52 test.sh

As pkaramol (uid=1000)

Andromeda $ ./test.sh
pkaramol
1000

As testuser (uid=1001)

Andromeda $ su testuser
Password:
testuser@Andromeda:/home/pkaramol/Desktop$ ./test.sh
testuser
1001

Given that the suid has been set, why, in the second run, do we not see pkaramol and 1000 in the output? Isn't the script supposed to be executed with the file owner's id?

1 Answer

From man 2 execve, section NOTES:

Linux ignores the set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits on scripts.

Also see:

• Allow setuid on shell scripts

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