Bug#2691: new perl break suid scripts

[Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca]

  Michael>  I thought suidperl was being gotten rid of for some reason---I
  Michael> know I've never used it in my life.

If I understand my perl correctly (camel book, p374), a perl script with suid
bit call suidperl for execution, this is supposedly safe. Now if suidperl is
missing, this obviously won't work.

  Michael> Have you tried adding the -T switch...  That might do the trick.

No, and yes. Tried it, doesn't help.

  Michael> And, just to be sure, did you make sure to re-set the suid bit
  Michael> after editing the script to refer to /usr/bin/perl rather than
  Michael> /usr/bin/suidperl?

I never called /usr/bin/suidperl as you could have seen from the source to
the script I posted in the bug report.

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Dirk Eddelb"uttel                              http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd