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?