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Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.1 - suidperl isn't setuid - what's the right way to fix this?
- From: David Brodbeck <gull@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:03:24 -0800
- Message-id: <45E4AAAC.7060207@xxxxxxx>
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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> 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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