On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 09:42 -0500, Alfred von Campe wrote:
I'm trying to create a setuid Perl script (yes, I am aware about the security implications), but am getting this error:
% cat testsetuid.pl #!/usr/bin/perl -UT print "My real user id is $< but my effective user id is $>\n"; exit(0); % ./testsetuid.pl Can't do setuid (cannot exec sperl)
I am using the stock Perl that came with CentOS 4.5. The problem I am trying to solve is to run a software build as a particular user. We want any user to be able to submit a build job that runs on the build machine as the designated build user. If there is a better way to do this, I'm open to suggestions.
Alfred
Being aware of the security implications, do you have perl-suidperl-X.rpm installed?