On Wed, 08 Mar 2000 17:32:58 -0600, you wrote: >I have a perl CGI that calls a suidperl script that broke in the update to >slink. What is suppoed to happen is the CGI gets the data from the web page, >rigorously checks it for safeness and then system()'s a root suidperl script >to do the work. It used to work under potato, but now under slink, I get the >following error in my error.log: Can't do setuid
Why don't you system() that perl script without the suid bit via sudo? Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29