From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Aug 12 13:24:28 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 DCB0637BAF4 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 13:24:13 -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 OAA15876; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 14:24:01 -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 OAA98798; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 14:23:25 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008122023.OAA98798@harmony.village.org> To: Mark Murray Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 12 Aug 2000 13:13:40 +0200." <200008121113.NAA19104@grimreaper.grondar.za> References: <200008121113.NAA19104@grimreaper.grondar.za> <200008120701.BAA92741@harmony.village.org> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 14:23:25 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200008121113.NAA19104@grimreaper.grondar.za> Mark Murray writes: : > In message <200008120655.IAA18409@grimreaper.grondar.za> Mark Murray writes: : > : If you reset the suid-bit on sperl5, then trying to run a suidperl script : > : results in: : > : : > : [greenpeace] ~/work $ ./test.pl : > : Can't do setuid : > : > Maybe it would be wise to expand this warning to include the reason it : > can't do the setuid and provide a solution (chmod). : : Spiffy. I'll add it to the list. OK. That tells me that it would be safe to change the install mode from 0 (in my tree) to 511 so that the error message is actually seen when people try to run the setuid perl scripts. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message