Andy, I'd really like to know why you are doing this at all... seems that accepting input as perl code over the 'net (or wherever) is a very bad idea. For those that need access to install plugins (this sounds like what you are doing), allow the filesystem to enforce the protections -- that is -- require them to have an account on the box. If they must do this remotely, this is what version control systems and SSH are for. Even Net::SSH if you must. Maybe if I understood the goal a little better...

and if you are running say, a student test program, if your students OWNZOR your box you might as well just get them expelled :)

But still, I do agree it would be nice to not have these BEGIN block vulnerabilities, but checking syntax without BEGIN blocks would look like broken syntax for many things that used BEGIN.

In reply to Re: Re: Embedded Syntax Checker? by flyingmoose
in thread Embedded Syntax Checker? by Anonymous Monk

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