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From: Jeffrey Wheat <jeff@tad.cetlink.net>
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Subject: Re: suidperl from httpd not working
To: paul@nation-net.com (Paul Walsh)
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 09:32:16 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <322EC149.F3D@nation-net.com> from "Paul Walsh" at Sep 5, 96 01:02:17 pm
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In reply to Paul Walsh's email
> Is there any way an httpd user (nobody) can run a setuid perl script through 
> cgi? Does it have to be a 'real' user.

Paul,
	I use a wrapper to do this.

main(argc,argv)
	int argc;
	char **argv;
{
	setuid(0);
	seteuid(0);
	execv("my perl script", argv);
}

Regards,
Jeff