From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 3 9:33:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chaos.evolve.za.net (chaos.evolve.za.net [196.34.172.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03ACD37B419 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 09:33:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from DAVE ([192.168.0.56]) by chaos.evolve.za.net (8.11.6/1.1.3) with SMTP id g03HXNI35557; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 19:33:25 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from dave@raven.za.net) Message-ID: <005f01c1947c$54198a20$3800a8c0@DAVE> From: "Dave Raven" To: Cc: References: <002f01c19479$3d688c20$3800a8c0@DAVE> <20020103122243.A14995@tharmas.rintrah.org> Subject: Re: Setuid. Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 19:30:21 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message