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Date:      Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:22:06 -0800
From:      "D. Marc Stearman" <marc@mordred.punk.net>
To:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: suidperl
Message-ID:  <20020128132206.A64775@mordred.punk.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020113002822.GA28482@spoon.pkl.net>; from freebsd-security@rikrose.net on Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 12:28:22AM %2B0000
References:  <077f01c19b41$7cf205a0$6500a8c0@halenet.com.au> <20020112204404.A455@raven.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20020113002822.GA28482@spoon.pkl.net>

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openwebmail is one application that uses suidperl.  

If you ever need an application to be setuid, you can either use
suidperl, or write a c-wrapper around your perl script and have the
c-progrm be setuid.  It just another option for flexibility.

-Marc

Rik said:
> 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?
> 
> rik
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