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Re: PCMCIA works; Allowing suid scripts on laptops?



On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Rob Browning wrote:

> For most things like this, you should probably use sudo anyway.

sudo is not always appropriate.  suidperl's security is pretty good
actually (tainted variables, etc).

An option in the postinst or simply two packages, perl and suidperl,
are both good options.  I hope the perl maintainer will do this before
we release 1.1 to the public.


Guy


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