On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 08:14:50PM -0400, Cees Hek wrote:
> According to the perlsec docs, suidperl should not be called directly as 
> it is currently done in qmail-scanner.  perl will automatically call 
> suidperl if it sees that the perl script has the suid bit set.

Humph. That was only done in the first place to work around a certain OS's
(rhymes with "Solaris") broken perl installs.

I will remove the usage of "/usr/bin/suidperl" from the next release - i.e.
to do it the "right" way again.


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