From owner-freebsd-isp Fri May 1 12:38:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07848 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 1 May 1998 12:38:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07836 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 12:38:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsdlist@federation.addy.com) Received: from localhost (fbsdlist@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA06645; Fri, 1 May 1998 15:38:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 15:38:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Cliff Addy To: joe cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SUID in perl scripts In-Reply-To: <005601bd7536$d99757e0$027462d1@speed.thebestisp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 1 May 1998, joe wrote: > 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. Use the -U option for perl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message