Re: Proc::UID test problems

[Scott Edwards <supadupa@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Gordon Haverland
<ghaverla@materialisations.com> wrote:
> I wrote a program to help install a package, which makes use of
> effective UID changes.  And Proc::UID fits those requirements
> nicely.
>
> On my computer (Debian/unstable), Proc::UID compiles and installs
> fine.  On another computer (Debian/stable), the SUID test (04) and
> the SGID test (05) both fail.  Installing perl-suid didn't help.
> Any ideas what is wrong?  The tests fail on command lines that
> look like:
>
>  system("04_test.t2");
>
> where the script 04_test.t2 is SUID..
>
> Thanks
> Gord


Last time I dabbled with suid-perl, I was informed it's depreciated.
I'm not sure if Debian takes the same stance on it.

Regards,


Scott.