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in thread suidperl not working?

Aha, I just looked at hints/linux.sh for my Perl 5.6.1 installation, and found the following statement:

# No version of Linux supports setuid scripts.

I tried it on a PC here running SuSE Linux, and it didn't work there either.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: suidperl not working?
by mas (Novice) on May 22, 2002 at 17:47 UTC

    Hmmm, very interesting.

    Can't find hints/linux.sh on my system, so I guess I'll have to take your word for it, but I do believe you.

    Now the question is, why is starting a script with 

    #!/usr/bin/suidperl
    instead of 
    #!/usr/bin/perl
    not recommended?
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      If you download Perl from http://www.perl.com and unpack it, you will find the hints subdirectory just below the top level. Have you read perlsec (perldoc perlsec if you are using a Perl version later than 5.005_03)?

      Why not look into using sudo to accomplish your task?

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