Suidperl was deprecated in Perl 5.10.1 and is dead with 5.12, to be released within the next two weeks. It died because there was nobody using it and nobody spoke up in favour of it, and it introduced far too many bugs, and bugs in suidperl are usually system compromises.

Usually, Perl testers run under one single user and hence don't test the user switching automatically. If you want to provide a patch to test user switching and the setup to change users automatically and unattended, you can submit it to perl5-porters@perl.org for inclusion with Perl.

In reply to Re^3: setuid script won't behave in 5.10, but did in 5.8 by Corion
in thread setuid script won't behave in 5.10, but did in 5.8 by isidore

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