From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jan 28 14:33:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from lily.ezo.net (lily.ezo.net [206.102.130.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5174E37B402 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:33:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from newpeony.ezo.net (newpeony.ezo.net [206.102.130.9]) by lily.ezo.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0SMXbV87439; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:33:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jflowers@ezo.net) From: "Jim Flowers" To: "D. Marc Stearman" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: suidperl Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:34:00 -500 Message-Id: <20020128173400.M51035@ezo.net> In-Reply-To: <20020128132206.A64775@mordred.punk.net> References: <077f01c19b41$7cf205a0$6500a8c0@halenet.com.au> <20020112204404.A455@raven.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20020113002822.GA28482@spoon.pkl.net> <20020128132206.A64775@mordred.punk.net> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 1.60 20020125 X-OriginatingIP: 24.93.230.119 (jflowers) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org And while OWM works well enough with perl5.00503 with either suidperl or perl with suid compiled in to allow changing passwords, it does not work with perl5.6 as it refuses to lock or open master.passwd. > 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 Jim Flowers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message