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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.
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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.
>
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
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