On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:47:10 +0100, Alexander Kapps wrote: >> Having said that I'm possibly arriving at the conclusion that a quick >> perl script might be the simplest/easiest and most secure option - I >> read perl includes code to safely run suid perl scripts - will dig out >> my perl tomes. > > Not sure, but Perl is just another "scripting language" (hate that > term) and you cannot have scripts be SUID.
Perl installations may include a setuid version of the Perl interpreter under the name "sperl", which effectively allows you to have setuid Perl scripts. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
