On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:28:41AM -0500, 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

Perl is special because it doesn't run natively, but is run by the perl
interpreter, which doesn't have the suid bit set.

If it's a perl script you wish to run, take a look around for suidperl or
perl-suid, which allows you to perform those tasks.

So is the webcam program written in perl?

BAJ

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