in reply to Getting perl code to run sgid

non perl answer - investigate sudo

-derby

update: Hey come on now about the down vote. This is a perfectly reasonable alternative.

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Re: Re: Getting perl code to run sgid
by dsheroh (Monsignor) on May 22, 2002 at 15:31 UTC
    Considered it, but then I'd have to retrain the users to type sudo -u esper pm-print... instead of just pm-print.... So much uglier (and so much more trouble) than just setting a simple sgid bit.
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      pm-print just becomes 

      `exec sudo -u esper pm-print.pl @ARGS`

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      -derby

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