Re: Stopping a Service with cgi

On 2/15/06, Mohammed Shameer <shameer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Can there be a setuid perl script which when executed, runs with the
privileges of owner of the file
ie:-
I am root
chown root:root /bin/myscript.pl
chmod +s /bin/myscript.pl

Now I am a local user
/bin/myscript.pl

and myscript.pl contains some code which need root privileges to run.

Yes; this can be done with perl, depending upon OS and configuration.
Some systems don't support secure set-id scripts, but you can use a
"wrapper" to make your program run set-id. See the perlsec
documentation for the details, and be careful about security issues.
Hope this helps!

--Tom Phoenix
Stonehenge Perl Training
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