Need help with suid perl

Dungeon666 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am trying to setup openwebmail on fedora core 3. I have apache running and sendmail works. I don't know how to compile perl with suid support so i just installed perlsuid rpm. But when i try to access openwebmail from the web i get can't set suid in the http error_log. So i am assuming my problem lies somehow with suid perl. Can anyone help me?

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Re: Need help with suid perl by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Nov 18, 2004 at 14:13 UTC
It will be better to have apache httpd handle the setuid part. Set up httpd to use the suEXEC feature for cgi. Unfortunately, suEXEC is not compatible with mod_perl, except in highly experimental state. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]
Re: Need help with suid perl by hmerrill (Friar) on Nov 18, 2004 at 12:57 UTC
Let me get this straight - you want "openwebmail" to run from the webserver as a user other than the webserver default user "nobody" - is that right?? What user do you want "openwebmail" to run as? I'm asking because I'm familiar with the apache "suexec" wrapper which allows the webserver to run scripts as the owner of those scripts (instead of as the webserver default "nobody" user). Does this sound like what you're looking for?	[reply]
Re^2: Need help with suid perl by Dungeon666 (Initiate) on Nov 19, 2004 at 03:09 UTC
Openwebmail is a mail server that runs from the web. It requires suidperl. I have installed the suidperl rpm and suid shows up in /usr/bin but if try to access openwebmail from the web i get internal server error. Inside the http access_error logs it says can't set suid. Is this not a perl problem? If there is something in apache that i am forgetting to enable or configure can you explain where to look to how to do that?	[reply]
Re^3: Need help with suid perl by hmerrill (Friar) on Nov 19, 2004 at 13:51 UTC
I'm not familiar with Openwebmail nor with suidperl. If I were you I would join the fedora-list mailing list, and/or join the #fedora IRC chat on freenode.net and ask your questions there. Good luck - sorry I can't be more help.	[reply]