David Brodbeck wrote:
> On my SUSE 10.1 system, suidperl doesn't have its setuid bit set. 
> Normally this would be easy to fix -- just set it.  But
> /usr/bin/suidperl and /usr/bin/perl appear to be hardlinks to the same
> file, so if I set the suid bit on /usr/bin/suidperl, *all* perl scripts
> end up running as root -- definitely *not* what I want!  I assume
> there's some "right" way to do this I'm overlooking.
>   

Never mind...some more Googling found an obscure reference (in a
cyrus-imapd security announcement, of all places) to setting the suid
bit on /usr/bin/sperl5.8.8 instead.  That took care of it.

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