On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 12:46:13AM +0200, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: > On 08.08.2011 11:53, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > Yes, this is correct; suidperl has been removed upstream, so it has > > gone from the Debian pacakge too. Any package using suidperl in Debian > > should now have a bug open against it, if it hasn't already been fixed > > to not use suidperl. > > > > It's regrettable that this functionality was removed, but there was no > > interest in maintaining it upstream, so its removal was inevitable. > > Dominic, thanks for you explanations. > > What are the proposed workarounds? E.g. in my case I need to run few > Perl scripts under root (at least to elevate to "disk" group), which are > called by Cacti grapher to collect S.M.A.R.T HDD information. > > Is /etc/sudoers the right way for that?
There are many possible answers to this question, and I don't want to go too far down the router of offering general advice on a bug report, but sudo is certainly one possible option. You might find the mailing list thread at[1] which discusses the removal interesting. Dominic. [1] <http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/perl/porters/234561> -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
