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["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Tuesday 2007-02-27 at 14:03 -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:

> 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.

;-)

It is documented by SuSE:

/etc/permissions:

#
# legacy
#
# don't set the setuid bit on suidperl! Set it on sperl instead if
# you really need it as suidperl is a hardlink to perl nowadays.
/usr/bin/suidperl                                       root:root          
755

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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