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Date:      Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:19:43 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile 
Message-ID:  <200008112119.OAA92620@netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20000811231343.A58966@mithrandr.moria.org> 

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Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> On Fri 2000-08-11 (14:03), Peter Wemm wrote:
> > Actually.. How does this sound:
> > 
> > cat /usr/bin/suidperl
> > #! /bin/sh
> > echo "suidperl is not installed by default.  blah blah danger etc. try:"
> > echo "cp /usr/bin/suidperl.real /usr/bin/suidperl"
> > echo "chmod 6111 /usr/bin/suidperl"
> > exit 1
> > 
> > and install suidperl as /usr/bin/suidperl.real with mode 444.  Only install
> > the suidperl wrapper into /usr/bin if it is not already there.  That
> > stops POLA by preventing blowing away a real /usr/bin/suidperl.
> > 
> > If ENABLE_SUIDPERL is active, then unconditionally install suidperl in
> >  /usr/bin/suidperl with the correct modes.
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> if [ -u /usr/libexec/suidperl ]; then
> 	exec /usr/libexec/suidperl
> fi
> 
> echo "suidperl is not installed with suid privilege by default"
> echo "If you know what you're doing, type chmod 4755 /usr/libexec/suidperl"
> exit 1

That will not fly - perl's internal sanity checks will catch that.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5



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