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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Setuid/setgid scripts
Message-ID: <2719@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 25 Mar 90 17:34:49 GMT
References: <1395@frankland-river.aaii.oz.au>
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Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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In-reply-to: pem@frankland-river.aaii.oz.au (Paul E. Maisano)

In article <1395@frankland-river.aaii.oz.au>, pem@frankland-river (Paul E. Maisano) writes:
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 `I am trying to run a perl script setgid but have had some problems.
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 `I am running perl under SUNOS 4.0, so scripts are insecure.
 `Perl reminded me of this loudly after I made the script setgid.
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We also have a system where perl complains about insecure scripts. We got
rid of this by #!-ing not perl but suidperl. I know Larry says that
suidperl is not meant to be called directly, but this worked. Of course the
resulting system is insecure, but if you can live with that ...
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