[CentOS] Re: Problem running a setuid Perl script on CentOS 4.5

on 11/16/2007 7:56 AM Alfred von Campe spake the following:

On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:55, Marc Wiatrowski wrote:

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Being aware of the security implications, do you have perl-suidperl-X.rpm installed?

I meant I was aware of the implications of running setuid scripts. I was not aware that CentOS' upstream provider had packaged suidperl separately. Installing this package solved my problem. However, I am pursuing an sudo solution at the moment that may work even better for me.

Thanks, Alfred

The security concerns are why it was packaged separately. A sysadmin needs to explicitly install it, so he/she should know it is there and watch for problems.