From owner-cvs-all Fri Aug 11 12: 9:48 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6CA137B683; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:09:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13NKAN-000Ewu-00; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 21:08:27 +0200 Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 21:08:27 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Warner Losh Cc: Christopher Masto , "Chris D. Faulhaber" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile Message-ID: <20000811210827.A57382@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000811144136.A12290@netmonger.net> <20000811141800.A14610@netmonger.net> <20000811144136.A12290@netmonger.net> <200008111857.MAA36439@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200008111857.MAA36439@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:57:52PM -0600 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri 2000-08-11 (12:57), Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20000811144136.A12290@netmonger.net> Christopher Masto writes: > : The reason against it is that it's a standard part of Perl, and a very > : useful one. Without it, those who install from binary, or don't know > : to set this option, will not be able to run setuid Perl programs. > > Good. I want people to have to explicitly do something before setuid > scripts of any kind will work on their system. Why don't we build it, and not make it setuid? I don't like the idea of having to build it from source when it could just have permissions changed. (often don't have source on machines) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message