From owner-freebsd-isp Fri May 1 12:23:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04806 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 1 May 1998 12:23:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.thebestisp.com (shell.thebestisp.com [204.220.33.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04801 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 12:23:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@thebestisp.com) Received: from speed.thebestisp.com ([209.98.116.2]) by shell.thebestisp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA04969 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 14:22:36 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joe@thebestisp.com) Message-ID: <005601bd7536$d99757e0$027462d1@speed.thebestisp.com> From: "joe" To: Subject: SUID in perl scripts Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 14:25:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0053_01BD750C.F07E2C60" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0053_01BD750C.F07E2C60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, I am trying to write a PERL script to do some admin tasks via CGI and am = running into a problem that I had not thought was going to be a problem = I need to get the scripts to either run as root or be able to execute = certain commands as root. anyone know how to do this? I have tried the = suid bit in CHMOD but that doesn't seem to change anything.=20 Thanks, joe@thebestisp.com ------=_NextPart_000_0053_01BD750C.F07E2C60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hi all,
 
I am trying to write a PERL script = to do some=20 admin tasks via CGI and am running into a problem that I had not thought = was=20 going to be a problem I need to get the scripts to either run as root or = be able=20 to execute certain commands as root. anyone know how to do this? I have = tried=20 the suid bit in CHMOD but that doesn't seem to change anything. =
 
Thanks,
joe@thebestisp.com
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