Alas, setuid (and maybe setgid) do not just "work" with my perl, which
is from freebsd ports (perl-5.8.0). IIRC setuid capability is a
compile-time choice, so many systems may not come with that enabled...
If you are thinking of suidperl (ie perl script has suid bit set,
and /usr/sbin/suidperl as the shell rather than /usr/bin/perl)
then that's true, many systems don't have it.
However I was assuming the script was to be run as root via
/etc/init.d/something for example, and doesn't require
suidperl. I can't think of why a perl intepreter can't use
the setuid or setgid system call (achived by using
'$( = 111' or '$< = 111' to set(gu)id to (gu)id 11).
--
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Security Engineer Your time is now."
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