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Subject: Re: fyi majordomo on bsd/386
From: Brent Chapman <brent @ GreatCircle . COM>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 93 22:52:38 -0800
To: Barbara Dyker <barb @ locutus . cs . colorado . edu>
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM, polk @ bsdi . com
In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 2 Feb 1993 16:32:54 -0700

Jeff Polk <polk@bsdi.com> writes:

# This is a problem with setuid scripts in BSD/386.  There just isn't
# any way to do it at the moment (the majordomo server on BSDI.COM is down
# right now for this very reason).  I'll let you know as soon as I
# get the fixed exec.c for the kernel.

But wait a sec...  There aren't any setuid scripts involved here.
Majordomo is not setuid.  Wrapper is, but it's a binary, not a script.
The whole point of wrapper is to make perl think that it's _not_ being
run setuid.  Are you sure you can't work around this problem by fixing
wrapper?


-Brent
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