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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To: Rik <freebsd-security@rikrose.net>
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Subject: Re: suidperl 
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On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 00:28:22 GMT, Rik wrote:

> Which raises the question, what use is suidperl without the suid bit? I
> can't recall ever having used it, and I can't recall any scripts I know
> of that use it... so, uhm, what's the point?

It's provided so that folks don't have to build any software to make it
available.  They just have to make it setuid root.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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