Re: suid-perl

[Chip Salzenberg <chip@perlsupport.com>]

According to Michael Stone:
> Quoting Wichert Akkerman (wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl):
> > What perl-suid should do is check the mountoptions for the filesystem on
> > which the script resides and abort if that was mounted with nosuid.
> > Should be quite simple actually..
> 
> But that's still not general enough. For example, you just missed the
> case of noexec... The solution should be done at a higher level, IMHO...

Every OS has a different set of mount options that may or may not be
relevant to setuid security.  I don't see what 'higher level' would be
useful.
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