From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 23 2: 8:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from heaven.gigo.com (gigo.com [207.173.11.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F5E537B416 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 02:08:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.gigo.com [127.0.0.1]) by heaven.gigo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FB77B85A; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 02:07:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 02:07:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Fesler To: Jarrod Sayers Cc: Subject: Re: setuid perl In-Reply-To: <20010923163133.E20842-100000@sanctuary.magill.unisa.edu.au> Message-ID: <20010923020531.Q84704-100000@heaven.gigo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have a strong feeling that its going to be NO, so can anyone suggest any > other methods? 5 words: setuid scripts are way bad Alternatives to setuid, for your stated purposes: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/suexec.html http://cgiwrap.unixtools.org/ -- Jason Fesler http://gigo.com/resume.html "Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message