Re: trouble writing a setuid script

On Aug 30, 1:20 am, magloca <magl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Peter Michaux @ Saturday 30 August 2008 09:07:



Hi,

I'm trying to write a setuid script and can't make it happen. I've
trimmed it down to the very simple example below trying to have a
logger.pl script add a message to a log file. This is my Bash
transcript with all the pertinent details.
[code snipped]
(I don't run into any errors when writing the same program in C.)

Yeah, I tried to do something like that once, too. Turned out the setuid
flag is ignored on scripts; it's only allowed on (binary) executables.
So that's also why your compiled C program works.

It seems it must be possible to write a setuid script because there is
a lot of fuss about it in "perldoc perlsec" which is also part of the
camel book.

Peter
.

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