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Subject: Re: Setuid.
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 19:23:42 +0200
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Yes. I think so.
Lemme give you some more details.

the perl program basically revolves around this:

@lines=`/usr/utils/prog -v`;
while ($line = shift(@lines)) {
        if ($opt_v) {print ("Received : $line\n");}
        print $line;
}

prog -v spews out the version
This all works if I run my perl program as root.

should I change prog to suid root?

Why am I getting?:
su-2.05$ /usr/optec/bwutil.pl
Can't do setuid

Any ideas? And what should I do to set it as suid.
        chmod 4755 prog
        chown root.wheel prog

????

Thanks.



----- Original Message -----
From: <devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org>
To: "Dave Raven" <dave@kill-9.za.net>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: Setuid.


> On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 07:08:16PM +0200, Dave Raven wrote:
> > Yes, but the perl program needs to run another program as root.
> > No variables are passed or anything.
>
> Can you run that *other* program suid, then? At least that way the suid
> program won't be directly exposed to the web.
>
> > What it does is get a version number for a program (from kernel)
> > Later I will need to add rules (bandwidth manager) and this HAS to be
done
> > from
> > the web and as root.
> >
> > Is there a better way, or how do I do it this way?
> >
>
> --devin
>


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