if I make the script setuid-<user with id 1015>, log in with user id 1016 and run the script

My understanding of the setuid situation is that the only safe way to actually make a script setuid is to not do that, and use the sudo tool. setuid with a scripting language has a much larger attack surface due to the interpreter using various environment variables like 'PERL5OPT' that the linux loader won't be aware of (it has some protections for LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but it can't know about much more than that) Making something setuid without opening up the ability to run arbitrary code as the other user is fairly difficult. sudo helps with this by sanitizing the environment before the script interpreter gets invoked.

Maybe this is what you meant elsewhere by "the right way to make a script setuid" but I didn't see any mention of sudo, so I figured I'd warn you at least.

In reply to Re^3: Not understanding the code to drop privileges in perlsec by NERDVANA
in thread Not understanding the code to drop privileges in perlsec by Nocturnus

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