Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 20:56:18 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: steve@news.cioe.com (Steve Ames) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: setuid under perl5? Message-ID: <199611261956.UAA13906@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199611261611.LAA13111@news.cioe.com> from Steve Ames at "Nov 26, 96 11:11:52 am"
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As Steve Ames wrote: > I have a couple of scripts written in perl5 that need to edit some files > that are owned by root. I had intended to just setuid the script and go > with it, but no go. > > I'm using Freebsd 2.1.5 and perl5 compiled straight out of > /usr/ports/lang/perl5 (ports-current). The port is known to be broken, and the maintainer already promised to fix it. Removing support for Posix saved IDs from your config file should work. (That's what the /usr/bin/suidperl does.) The security `fix' for the latest suidperl security problems simply is a no-go for 4.4BSDs. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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