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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: execve() ignores shell script setuid bit
Date: 5 Feb 1996 10:10:05 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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dillon@best.com (Matt Dillon) writes:

>     The only problem is that suidperl is too dangerous to install.  That
>     is, unless you *want* someone to hack root on your machine...

Can you provide an example?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)