In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc Haber writes: >On Wed, 08 Mar 2000 17:32:58 -0600, you wrote: >>I have a perl CGI that calls a suidperl script that broke in the update to >>slink. What is suppoed to happen is the CGI gets the data from the web page, > >>rigorously checks it for safeness and then system()'s a root suidperl script >>to do the work. It used to work under potato, but now under slink, I get the > >>following error in my error.log: Can't do setuid > >Why don't you system() that perl script without the suid bit via sudo?
That's a thought, but will it work? It looks like apache isn't letting me execute a setuid root program (suidperl) in the CGI. Since sudo is setuid as well won't I have the same problem? -- Ted Cabeen http://www.pobox.com/~secabeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check Website or finger for PGP Public Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." -F. Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Human kind cannot bear very much reality."-T.S.Eliot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
