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Date:      Sun, 23 Sep 2001 02:07:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jason Fesler <jfesler@gigo.com>
To:        Jarrod Sayers <Jarrod.Sayers@unisa.edu.au>
Cc:        <stable@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: setuid perl
Message-ID:  <20010923020531.Q84704-100000@heaven.gigo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010923163133.E20842-100000@sanctuary.magill.unisa.edu.au>

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> I have a strong feeling that its going to be NO, so can anyone suggest any
> other methods?

5 words:  setuid scripts are way bad
Alternatives to setuid, for your stated purposes:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/suexec.html
http://cgiwrap.unixtools.org/

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