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Date:      Sat, 12 Aug 2000 08:55:41 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, 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:  <200008120655.IAA18409@grimreaper.grondar.za>
In-Reply-To: <20000811215224.B57942@mithrandr.moria.org> ; from Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>  "Fri, 11 Aug 2000 21:52:24 %2B0200."
References:  <20000811215224.B57942@mithrandr.moria.org> 

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> On Fri 2000-08-11 (12:50), Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > I opt for a wrapper that, if sperl is "disabled", fails with an error
> > explaining why sperl won't work as expected. Installing sperl without
> > the expected mods is against POLA.
> 
> If it is documented, you needn't be astonished.  Also, I imagine that we
> can make suidperl a wrapper which explains the problem, and _also_
> provide it without setuid privilege (or just build it into suidperl, but
> that'd mean getting dirty with the contrib code).

If you reset the suid-bit on sperl5, then trying to run a suidperl script
results in:

[greenpeace] ~/work $ ./test.pl
Can't do setuid

M
> 
> Neil
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> Neil Blakey-Milner
> Sunesi Clinical Systems
> nbm@mithrandr.moria.org
> 
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