I can't write them all down to /etc/sudoers

Umm, why not? This is an extremely flexible and comfortable way of granting minimum necessary privileges (you can even give users the ability to run commands as other users, not root, or use one sudoers file for several systems, specifying which capabilities are allowed on which systems). Why would you not want to do this the most secure way possible (given that what you're trying to do is risky at best anyway)?

I thought there is some generic perl way to change uid?

Sorry, I'm not in the business of promoting bad practices (and I consider suidperl to be a bad practice :-).

If you're calling lots of external commands, the best thing would be to condense these into one or several shell scripts (taking care to make the scripts do as little as possible, be as unambiguous as possible and require as few passed parameters as possible) and then make the script callable by sudo.


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In reply to Re^3: Perl script needs root privilegies by tirwhan
in thread Perl script needs root privilegies by ivanatora

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