On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 04:04:14AM -0500, D-Man wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:27:38AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > | would writing scripts in a compiled language like > | C be a solution? > | > > If any binary files can be exec as suid, then I would recommend > python. It will have more of the feel of a script with its high level > view of things. > > Python programs can be byte-compiled to .pyo files. It may be an > option to have the .pyo file suid while hiding the .py source itself.
.pyo files aren't executable:(, you'll have to feed them to python, so the suid bits are meaningless. -- groetjes, carel
