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Subject: RE: Setuid.
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 19:42:58 +0200 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Raven [mailto:dave@raven.za.net]
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 19:30
> To: devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Setuid.
> 
> 
> Sorry, another follow up on my previous post:
> 
>     I cannot run the other program suid because it (the 
> actuall program)
> check what user is running it,
>     and that will never be root. so, it needs to be called by root.
> 
>     Also, this is a perl program, so it calls perl. Does perl 
> not need to
> run as suid root, considering
>     I'm actually running perl -w myprog.pl        ??
> 
> Thanks again.

A solution that might suit you is to break this into two
programs: The perl script that would run as root (not
SUID-root, I mean real root) will write the output to a
predetermined file that the web program can read, and
the web program can disperse it to whoever request.

Like:
perl -w perlscript.pl > /usr/local/www/data/perltempfile

and read  /usr/local/www/data/perltempfile with
your web program.

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