Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 21:08:27 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org>, 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> In-Reply-To: <200008111857.MAA36439@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:57:52PM -0600 References: <20000811144136.A12290@netmonger.net> <20000811141800.A14610@netmonger.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008111426270.98390-100000@pawn.primelocation.net> <20000811144136.A12290@netmonger.net> <200008111857.MAA36439@harmony.village.org>
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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
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