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From: vcba79@ms1.hinet.net (Vincent Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: suid perl under freebsd won't work?
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 13:34:16 GMT
Organization: Vincent Research
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>> 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.
/usr/bin/suidperl works. My /usr/local/bin/perl came from
package 2.2.2 collection (perl-5.003). Does it means that
I didn't install it properly or perl package has problem? Is
it possible to fix it. I need some features in perl 5.003.
---
Vincent Chen
vcba79@ms1.hinet.net
Taipei,Taiwan
R.O.C.