[rt-users] sperl vs. suidperl

[Harald Wagener]

"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" wrote:
> 
> On Saturday, September 29, 2001 22:00:46 +0200, "Vincent - D. Ertner"
> <vincent at eec.de> wrote:
> +-----
> | I have under /usr/bin two files
> |
> |    sperl5.6.0 and
> |    suidperl
> |
> | both same in size and date - and they're not symlinked.
> | Which s*perl is used?
> +--->8
> 
> That'd be becaause they're hard links.
> 
> "suidperl" will always be the "current" version of Perl.  Given that
> mod_perl is version-dependent, I'd use the other one instead.
> 
> | And another one: yast (SuSE 7.1) is always killing the suid
> | flag ... any good idea to work around that?
> +--->8

edit /etc/permissions.easy . suidperl is set to 0755 by default (for security
reasons - if You don't need it, break it (-: )
change the entry on line 247 (true for SuSE 7.2) to reflect You know what You're
doing (i.e., change the 0755 to 4755). 

Don't forget to change the permissions on the binaries as well.

Regards,
	Harald


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