[Asterisk-Users] vmail.cgi: -rwsr-sr-x as root *still* won't read the files

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 10:50:42AM -0400, mike castleman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 12:23:48AM -0500, Brian Capouch wrote:
> > 
> > Drat.  Perl screams bloody murder if you try to just set its SUID bit, 
> > which of course is dangerous as hell.
> 
> The perl-suid is *not* simply a version of perl with the suid bit set
> but rather a helper binary which allows perl to run suid scripts. Try
> it.

Note that this script does not use any of the standard safety mechanisms
perl provides to achive some safety. It does not use -w or -T or strict.
Nor is it simple to adapt it to use those.

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