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From: rob@cvedc.uucp (Rob Robertson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: suid perl
Keywords: suidperl scripts
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.173005.470@cvedc.uucp>
Date: 23 Oct 90 17:30:05 GMT
Reply-To: rob@cvedc.UUCP ()
Organization: Computervision Beaverton Oregon
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I hate to be ignorant but I am.  I have a need to run suid to change
symbolic links in a file system to "create" the proper filesystem
for testers and developers so that can select and run "development"
software, "beta" software or "released" software.  My understanding
is that if you compile a C program, make the C program suid owned
by root, that should do the trick.  Well I did that with both the
sun4 OS4.0.3 and sun3 OS4.0.1 systems and found that the sparc program
works but the motorola code.  The complaint I get is:

Insecure PATH at ./sog line 3.

sog is the name of the perl script I am calling using the system call
in the c program.  If I am doing somthing wrong, or if there is another
way to do what I am after please let me know.

rob@cvedc.prime.COM