Re: perl

["Roger B.A. Klorese" <rogerk @ QueerNet . ORG>]

On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Bill Franklin III wrote:

> 
> 
> > On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Bill Franklin III wrote:
> > 
> > > on configuring perl to compile I get this message
> > > 
> > > Some sites have disabled setuid #! scripts because of a bug in the kernel
> > > that prevents them from being secure.  If you are on such a system, the
> > > setuid/setgid bits on scripts are currently useless.  It is possible for
> > > perl(linux-36LA) to detect those bits and emulate setuid/setgid in a secure fash
> > > ion until a better solution is devised for the kernel problem.
> > > 
> > > Do you want to do setuid/setgid emulation? [n]
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I think this might be a problem.. I answered no.. wrapper used setuid/setgid to run 
> > > and a different user/group.. right? so should there be emulation?
> > 
> > You don't need emulation -- wrapper, rather than the script itself, runs 
> > setuid.
> 
> makes sense.. so what's the problem.. ??

Nowhere in your message did you say you had a problem, or what it was... 
you simply said you thought the prompt above might be a problem.  It's 
not.

If you're having a problem, describe it.
 
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