Greetings wise monks, I have a very frustrating issue. I am upgrading my mail server from Redhat 6.2 to Redhat 9. I have some old legacy perl scripts that do some pretty invaluable functions that I would like to retain, the problem however is that no matter how hard I try, these scripts will not suid.

This is the info:

bash-2.05b$ ls -la create

-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 1176 Jun 16 21:13 create

~~ permissions seem correct!

bash-2.05b$ whoami

nobody

~~ shouldnt be a problem, right?

bash-2.05b$ ./create

Can't do setuid

~~ it says in the perldoc that if you get this error that /usr/bin/suidperl doesnt exist.

bash-2.05b$ ls -la /usr/bin/suidperl

-rwsr-sr-x 2 root root 531516 Jun 16 20:37 /usr/bin/suidperl

~ouch.

I have to say Im kind of clueless at this point, this is how I am calling the script

#! /usr/bin/suidperl, I have also tried #! /usr/bin/suidperl -T, #! /usr/bin/perl -T, #! /usr/bin/suidperl -TU, et cetera.

This just isnt working. Redhat 9 has a RPM file for suidperl, so I imagine at some point they intended it to be possible to do this.

By the way, the script works excellent if i run it as root. Thanks, -Drew

In reply to suidperl /w redhat 9 by badmrfrosty

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