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Re: Allowing users to execute shell scripts without seeing password

From: Mladen Gogala <gogala_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 00:56:29 -0500
Message-Id: <1140328589l.5492l.1l@medo.noip.com> 






On 02/18/2006 11:38:01 PM, Joseph Amalraj wrote:


> After doing some reading, I agree, that setting suid for shell scripts is poses 

> security risks. Probably the solution is not to use Shell, but some else like Perl.




So, if switching UID is dangerous with a shell script, it will somehow be 
rendered harmless if you use Perl, which allows all kinds of programming 
tricks and hacks?



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