[rt-users] sperl vs. suidperl

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Saturday, September 29, 2001 22:00:46 +0200, "Vincent - D. Ertner" 
<vincent at eec.de> wrote:
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| I have under /usr/bin two files
|
|    sperl5.6.0 and
|    suidperl
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| both same in size and date - and they're not symlinked.
| Which s*perl is used?
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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?
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Edit /etc/permissions to set the appropriate permissions; SuSE 7.x is more 
paranoid than earlier releases and resets permissions on suid files not in 
/etc/permissions whenever /sbin/SuSEconfig runs.  (Which would be less of a 
problem if it actually honored PERMISSION_SECURITY in /etc/rc.config so you 
could add the correct permissions to /etc/permissions.local and not have 
them be overwritten when aaa_base is upgraded....)

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