Hello,

Total beginner here. I need a cgi script to run as root to recursively change file permissions. I slapped something together from examples, but Apache complains: 

Insecure dependency in chmod while running setuid at /var/www/cgi-bin/
+set-perms.pl line 13., referer: https://example.com/cgi-bin/

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This is the script: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

BEGIN {
  $ENV{PATH} = "";
}

use strict;
use File::Find;
$|++;

my $baseDir  = "/var/www/test/";
my $modeFile = oct(664);
my $modeDir  = oct(2775);

sub setperms {
  chmod($modeFile, $_) if(-f $_);  <------/line 13/
  chmod($modeDir, $_)  if(-d $_);
  chown(-1, 1005, $_);
}

find(\&setperms, "$baseDir");

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Please help... :(

In reply to Insecure dependency in chmod while running setuid by ak4good

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