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Date:      Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:02:01 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Pater Pandoson <ppandoson@eCoNeed.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: perl
Message-ID:  <20010130190201.P54217@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <3A76DA65.9EDE8E5F@eCoNeed.com>; from ppandoson@eCoNeed.com on Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 03:14:45PM %2B0000
References:  <3A76DA65.9EDE8E5F@eCoNeed.com>

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On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 03:14:45PM +0000, Pater Pandoson wrote:
> What is the easy way to prevent uses on a system
> using perl FreeBSD seem to use perl as nobody so
> chmoding will not work unless I change it to be owned
> by nobody? But that seems very sloppy.

/usr/bin/perl doesn't run with privileges, so there's no security risk
there. /usr/bin/suidperl does, but it's not used by anything in the
system and chances are you can safely remove it. It's not installed
setuid in recent versions of FreeBSD anyway:

=46rom /etc/make.conf

# To enable building enstalling suidperl with the setuid bit turned on
#ENABLE_SUIDPERL=3D       true

I think older versions had a way of disabling it from here too (this
controls how it will be rebuilt by make world).

Kris

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