Re: trouble writing a setuid script

Peter Michaux <petermichaux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It seems it must be possible to write a setuid script [...]

Yes, it is. The question is, if you _OS_ will execute scripts as SUID or
not. This applies to any script, not just scripts written in Perl.

jue
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