Can't run perldoc as root ?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

I am new to perl. I installed V5.0.8 on my Sun machine. Running perldoc with any paramater gives the following error:

Superuser must not run /usr/local/bin/perldoc without security audit and taint checks.

Does anyone know how to solve this?

Thanks.

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Re: perldoc by Fletch (Bishop) on Feb 18, 2003 at 17:14 UTC
Quoth `perldoc perldoc`: `-U run insecurely Because perldoc does not run properly tainted, and is known to have security issues, it will not normally execute as the supe- ruser. If you use the -U flag, it will do so, but only after set- + ting the effective and real IDs to nobody's or nouser's account, or -2 if unavailable. If it cannot relinquish its privileges, it will not run.` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: perldoc by broquaint (Abbot) on Feb 18, 2003 at 17:38 UTC
Further to that, this flag won't be needed in future versions of perl thanks to a patch from Mr. Cozens (see. [PATCH perldoc] For screaming hell's sake). HTH `_________ broquaint`	[reply]
Re: perldoc by Tomte (Priest) on Feb 18, 2003 at 17:09 UTC
Simple: Do as it says, don't run it as root! regards, tomte	[reply]