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From: mmuegel@camdev.comm.mot.com	 (Michael S. Muegel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: setuid problems when using suidscript
Message-ID: <395@camdev.comm.mot.com?>
Date: 4 Mar 91 17:45:43 GMT
Reply-To: mmuegel@mot.com (Michael S. Muegel)
Organization: Cellular Infrastructure Group, Motorola, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas
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Probably yet another rookie question from a new Perl user, but here goes. I
was trying to use suidscript from Ch6 of the book to make a C wrapper so
a script of mine can run suid root without using suidperl.

Here is what I did:

   + the script has #!/usr/local/bin/perl
   + changed the mode so that it is setuid root (had to do this to get
     suidscript to do anything)
   + ran suidscript with the full pathname of the Perl script

When I run the wrapper I get this:

   Can't run setuid script with taint checks.

Can anyone explain this? Basically I DO NOT want to use taintperl so
I thought that by using a C wrapper I could get around this. 

Thanks,
-Mike

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