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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!nntp.zit.th-darmstadt.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: suid script support by kernel? Date: 19 Nov 1996 02:08:43 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <56r4rb$3sr@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3290967d.1786281@netnews.hinet.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E vcba79@ms1.hinet.net (Vincent Chen) wrote: > function, what security hole will be created? Also, the > installer ask me 'does your kernel support suid script?'. > Does my freebsd 2.1.5 release kernel support this function? No, it does not. It's best to have a look at the Perl5 `port', and see which configuration it is using. I think this one supports suidperl, and it is believed to be secure. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)