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Date:      Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:17:36 -0500 (EST)
From:      Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Setuid.
Message-ID:  <200201041717.g04HHaq36139@onceler.kciLink.com>
References:  <001b01c19476$c82f9d60$3800a8c0@DAVE>

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>>>>> "DR" == Dave Raven <dave@kill-9.za.net> writes:

DR> Hello,
DR>     I need to run a perl program as root from the web (web user = nobody)
DR>     These are the permissions I have given the file:
DR>         -rwsr-xr-x  1 nobody  nobody  1447 Jan  3 15:42 bwutil.pl

DR>     As a non root user:
DR>         su-2.05$ /usr/optec/bwutil.pl
DR>         Can't do setuid

You need to ensure your suidperl is set-uid to root.  The default is
not.  See /etc/default/make.conf to see how to make it so on rebuild,
or just chmod u+s the suidperl binary.

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