From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Aug 11 13: 0:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7926537B917; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:00:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA10055; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:00:22 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA78924; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:59:51 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008111959.NAA78924@harmony.village.org> To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org Reply-To: arch@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 11 Aug 2000 21:52:24 +0200." <20000811215224.B57942@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000811215224.B57942@mithrandr.moria.org> <200008111935.NAA36773@harmony.village.org> <20000811152305.C12290@netmonger.net> <20000811144136.A12290@netmonger.net> <20000811141800.A14610@netmonger.net> <20000811144136.A12290@netmonger.net> <200008111857.MAA36439@harmony.village.org> <200008111940.NAA44776@harmony.village.org> <399458F3.15AC1DE@cup.hp.com> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:59:51 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [[ moving discussion to arch ]] 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message