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Date:      Sat, 12 Aug 2000 14:23:25 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile 
Message-ID:  <200008122023.OAA98798@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 12 Aug 2000 13:13:40 %2B0200." <200008121113.NAA19104@grimreaper.grondar.za> 
References:  <200008121113.NAA19104@grimreaper.grondar.za>  <200008120701.BAA92741@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <200008121113.NAA19104@grimreaper.grondar.za> Mark Murray writes:
: > In message <200008120655.IAA18409@grimreaper.grondar.za> Mark Murray writes:
: > : If you reset the suid-bit on sperl5, then trying to run a suidperl script
: > : results in:
: > : 
: > : [greenpeace] ~/work $ ./test.pl
: > : Can't do setuid
: > 
: > Maybe it would be wise to expand this warning to include the reason it 
: > can't do the setuid and provide a solution (chmod).
: 
: Spiffy. I'll add it to the list.

OK.  That tells me that it would be safe to change the install mode
from 0 (in my tree) to 511 so that the error message is actually seen
when people try to run the setuid perl scripts.

Warner



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