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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.inetnebr.com!news.enteract.com!newsfeed.enteract.com!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.utell.co.uk!shift.utell.net!nobody From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: suid perl under freebsd won't work? Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 18:03:08 +0100 Organization: Awfulhak Ltd. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <c4mdq5.bhf.ln@shift.utell.net> References: <33c91f70.2880009@netnews.hinet.net> Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.org NNTP-Posting-Host: shift.utell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44412 In article <33c91f70.2880009@netnews.hinet.net>, vcba79@ms1.hinet.net (Vincent Chen) writes: > > Hi, > > I plan to let my user change their password via > web access and start to write an experimental perl > script. the script follows: > > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 87 Jul 14 02:38 dumppass.pl > > #!/usr/local/bin/suidperl -U > # > > @ARGV='/etc/master.passwd'; > while(<>) { > print $_; > }; > > This script supposed to dump whole password file > but it give me nothing. So I can't go further. Any > comment would be greatly appreciated. Your perl installation is broken. Try /usr/bin/suidperl instead. > --- > > Vincent Chen > vcba79@ms1.hinet.net > Taipei,Taiwan > R.O.C. > -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org> <http://www.awfulhak.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !