The correct answer would've been, rebuild perl with setuid. Eh?
-Drew -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cameron Simpson Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 7:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Setuid in rh9? On 16:48 16 Jun 2003, Drew Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Howdy, I am finally replacing a very old Redhat 6.2 box with a brand new | shiny dell 2650 and redhat 9, the issue is i have some older perl scripts, | and they work great on Redhat 6.2, heck they even work great on Redhat | 9 assuming that I am running the script as root, when i chown +s this | file and then try and run it as user nobody it says 'Can't do setuid'. Please press [enter] every 70 chars or so. | it worked fine on 6.2 They're built perl without setuid support. Which is the CORRECT way to do it. If you need a particular script to be run by a nonroot user and do root things, use sudo to grant the power. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ The Tao that is seen Is not the true Tao, until You bring fresh toner. - Haiku Error Messages http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
