On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 05:38:38PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Russ Allbery] > > Oh, I thought they'd given up on Safe. For some reason it stuck in > > my mind that it had too many issues and ended up being deprecated. > > Apparently, I either made that up or misremembered something. > > Possibly you were thinking of suidperl, the hack to allow Perl programs > to use setuid and setgid, working around the fact that most Unix > kernels don't honor the setuid + setgid bits when launching #! scripts. > suidperl was dropped some years ago because it had too many issues.
No, it's this: http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/Safe-2.35/Safe.pm (I seem to remember using a very early version of this, which was the only way to run a CGI script in my web space at university. It was definitely very restricted, but then I wasn't a particularly inventive Perl programmer.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130412225045.gp2...@decadent.org.uk