[CentOS] Re: Problem running a setuid Perl script on CentOS 4.5
Scott Silva
ssilva at sgvwater.comFri Nov 16 19:45:04 UTC 2007
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on 11/16/2007 7:56 AM Alfred von Campe spake the following: > On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:55, Marc Wiatrowski wrote: > >> 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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
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