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@@ -1414,6 +1414,26 @@ Study also how other non-UNIX ports have solved problems. =back +=head1 suidperl + +suiperl is an optional component, which is built or installed by default. +From perlfaq1: + + On some systems, setuid and setgid scripts (scripts written + in the C shell, Bourne shell, or Perl, for example, with the + set user or group ID permissions enabled) are insecure due to + a race condition in the kernel. For those systems, Perl versions + 5 and 4 attempt to work around this vulnerability with an optional + component, a special program named suidperl, also known as sperl. + This program attempts to emulate the set-user-ID and set-group-ID + features of the kernel. + +Because of the buggy history of suidperl, and the difficulty +of properly security auditing as large and complex piece of +software as Perl, we cannot recommend using suidperl and the feature +should be considered deprecated. +Instead use for example 'sudo': http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/ + =head1 make depend This will look for all the includes. The output is stored in makefile. |