On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 12:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Furthermore, the only way I could make the CGI script run was to
>
>
> # chmod u+s /usr/bin/perl
>
>
> Running the script with /usr/bin/suidperl, rather than /usr/bin/perl didn't
> make any difference (it might work if chmod'ing it to suid, but then what's
> the point?).
Suidperl should be owned by root and suid, perl should not. The point
of the separate suid binary is that it does some additional checking
and works around the usual race conditions when kernels do the
suid handling for scripts.
--
Les Mikesell
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