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Date:      Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:59:51 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        arch@freebsd.org
Cc:        cvs-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile 
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In message <20000811215224.B57942@mithrandr.moria.org> Neil Blakey-Milner writes:
: On Fri 2000-08-11 (12:50), Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
: > I opt for a wrapper that, if sperl is "disabled", fails with an error
: > explaining why sperl won't work as expected. Installing sperl without
: > the expected mods is against POLA.
: 
: If it is documented, you needn't be astonished.  Also, I imagine that we
: can make suidperl a wrapper which explains the problem, and _also_
: provide it without setuid privilege (or just build it into suidperl, but
: that'd mean getting dirty with the contrib code).

If we go the wrapper route, we'd need to make sure that the wrapper
doesn't introduce any new holes.  I think that would make it harder to
deal with than just enabling it.  The POLA complaint could be answered
by changing the suidperl man page.  Hmmm, looks like there's not a
separate man page for it, so maybe that isn't a good idea.

Warner




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