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Date:      Sat, 12 Aug 2000 23:06:40 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile
Message-ID:  <20000812230640.A78736@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200008130550.XAA06630@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 11:50:22PM -0600
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On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 11:50:22PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> : Why not put ``ENABLE_SUIDPERL="NO"'' in /etc/defautls/rc.conf.  Then in
> : /etc/rc, right after /usr is mounted, check the value of
> : `ENABLE_SUIDPERL' and either "u+s" or "u-s" it.
> 
> I'm not sure I like having setuid automatically enabling or disabling
> at boot.

Its the only automatic way I can think of to turn on suidperl and later
turn it back off (easily) when I replace that last suidperl script.
IMHO, it isn't that much different than turning on the various daemons
that run as root.

Rod's SUIDPERL_MODE would also be a fine rather than ENABLE_SUIDPERL.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)


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