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From: adler@arrester.caltech.edu (Bo Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Set-UID scripts -- Help!
Summary: Help!!!
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Date: 9 Jun 90 01:58:47 GMT
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I've been playing around with set-uid scripts, and no matter what
I answer in Configure, I always get the same message "SET UID SCRIPTS
HAVE NOT BEEN DISABLED IN YOUR KERNEL.  FIX YOUR KERNAL ...".

Also, even when this happens, if I do "perl -d script.pl", where
script.pl is a suid script, it WILL execute.  To me, something seems
truly wrong if a script won't run normally suid, but will if I invoke
the debugger.

While I'm at it, what exactly is the "C WRAPPER" that is mentioned in
that message?  I've heard the phrase before, but I don't understand it
in this context.

And finally, the source for Configure mentions "metaconfig"... is this
program available via anon ftp?  Could anyone tell me where to find this?

Thanks in advance,
   B. Thomas Adler