[rt-users] Question on rt and transports and sgid and what not

[Steve Nolan]

Just in case anyone else is trying to setup RT2 on a Slackware linux distro, I thought I'd share the little factoid that Slackware's bundled perl package doesn't do suidperl, even though the suidperl binary is included and, well, setuid. :-)  If someone brighter than me knows if there's a runtime option to enable this, please share!

In the meantime, removing the Slackware perl package and building a fresh install from source, and choosing "Kernel can't do setuid scripts safely" and "Let perl emulate setuid scripts" from the configuration script seemed to do the trick for me.

As far as I can tell, this is the case for all semi-current Slackware versions (3.0 and up)...  Hope this saves someone else some skull-beating. 

 -Steve.

Steve Nolan
Vancouver Island Regional Library
Systems Support Services
(250) 758-4697 x 217