Mads Martin Joergensen wrote:
On Dec 05, 2002, Greg Franks wrote:
Quick question, is there a good reason why suidperl is setuid root? (Security, probably, but is there a particular exploit that I should be aware of?)
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 800943 Sep 19 2001 suidperl
Where do you see that it is setuid root?
The permissions you see here are : owner has full access (read,write,execute) group has Read and eXecute acces others have Read and eXecute access. Just because a file is owned by root does not mean it is Suid root. You would see an s in the permissions if it was suid root. Justin -- Justin Davies - Linux Administrator Cinesite Europe Ltd. Project list: http://ming/justin If the designers of X-Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that. -- Marus J. Ranum, Digital Equipment Corporation