Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:17:12 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jeremiah@sherline.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suidperl breaks amavis port Message-ID: <14994.42648.893592.127141@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <36018434@toto.iv>
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Jeremiah Gowdy <jeremiah@sherline.com> types: > I've been speaking with the developers of Amavis, the perl script for MTAs > that scans emails using McAfee or some other virus scanner. They are unable > to get their script to work under FreeBSD 4.2 because suidperl keeps saying > "Can't do suid." They claim it worked fine under FreeBSD 4.1. Did the > suidperl's suid bit get removed in 4.2, or was it removed earlier ? I tried > just resetting the suid bit, but I still got the same message. Does > something special have to be done to enable suidperl ? Yup. You have to turn the setuid bit on on /usr/bin/suidperl. I'm not sure if this can be turned on during the install process. If you're building from sources, set ENABLE_SUIDPERL=true in /etc/make.conf. This is a compromise between security and functionality. The system is secure by default, but if you'd rather have the functionality, you can trivially turn it on. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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