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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!news From: csdayton+usenet@midway.uchicago.edu (Soren Dayton) Subject: Re: Does setuid work??? In-Reply-To: gmann@bugs.aditech.com's message of 29 Apr 1996 22:08:29 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: woodlawn.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <xcdivei646e.fsf@woodlawn.uchicago.edu> To: gmann@bugs.aditech.com (Glen W. Mann) Lines: 15 Sender: csdayton@woodlawn.uchicago.edu Organization: uchi.comp.unix viper cabal X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 References: <4m3ekt$7ar@portal.gmu.edu> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 22:44:41 GMT Our friend, gmann@bugs.aditech.com (Glen W. Mann), wrote: > I have a script (perl 5) which needs to reset owner and permissions for > a directory tree and its (harmless nuisance) files. I've got the script > set to > > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root bin 1234 somedate/time FixFiles > > The script starts with #!/usr/bin/perl virtually all modern unices do nt allow setuid scripts because of security holes. people usually write C wrappers around them to solve that problem Soren