Re: Executing the kill command from within an suid script.

2001-08-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Jeff Rouse/NCO/CEtv [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>I have been an SA and DBA for 7 years and have worked in a lot of different *>environments for several companies and I didn't go into apoplectic shock at *>my suggestion :-) Look at the suidperl source code, you will :) suid, even if root is not

Re: Executing the kill command from within an suid script.

2001-08-06 Thread Jeff Rouse/NCO/CEtv
Elaine -HFB- Ashton To: Jeff Rouse/NCO/CEtv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Executing the kill command from

Re: Executing the kill command from within an suid script.

2001-08-06 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Jeff Rouse/NCO/CEtv [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>Basically the process I wish to send a kill signal to is a redirector for *>squid. The process is owned by the squid user. The kill signal makes the *>redirector dump statistics about itself to a file. I want to run a script *>from my cgi-bin

Executing the kill command from within an suid script.

2001-08-05 Thread Jeff Rouse/NCO/CEtv
Hi I would like to run an suid perl script that among other things sends a kill -USR1 signal to a process. I have read about Perl tainting variables for security etc and to write a .c wrapper. I did this but still get an error running system() calls from within my perl script. I changed the sy