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Re: Is Perl Broken?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris)
Thu Nov 14 19:08:10 1996
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 17:22:53 -0600 (CST)
From: Chris <yeo@broadwaynet.com>
To: Kyle Ferrio <kbf@phy.duke.edu>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961114160945.16968A-100000@bigbang.phy.duke.edu>
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On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Kyle Ferrio wrote:
> Is Perl 5.003 as shipped with Colgate broken wrt setuid scripts.
> Perl should invoke suidperl when it encounters a an suid script,
> but instead it just runs normal perl with the effective uid unchanged.
>
> What's up? I have rtfm and the online perl faq. Thanks.
Kyle,
This can be fixed by grabbing the newest version of Perl (probably in
/pub/redhat/redhat-4.0/updates/i386 or something like that). It has the
patch to do this properly.
Chris
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