Linux does not honor suid shell scripts for security reasons:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2000/debian-security-200006/msg00025.html

I ran into this awhile ago.  I wrote a little binary that's suid root to
run some scripts I have that must run as root.
I don't know the situation for perl.

Jesse

Herbert Graf wrote:
>>Suid works here. Make the program root.root 4510 and have it touch a file
>>in /tmp. This will tell you what permissions it runs under.
>>
>>Peter
>
>
> I have the following set:
> -rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root          239 Jan  8 21:05 test.pl
>
> and get the following when I run as another user:
> # ./test.pl
> Can't do setuid
>
> Thanks, TTYL
>
> ----------------------------------
> Herbert's PIC Stuff:
> http://repatch.dyndns.org:8383/pic_stuff/
>
> --
> http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different
> ways.  See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.
>
>


--
"There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary
and those who don't."

--
http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different
ways.  See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.