Subject: Re: SETUIDSCRIPTS
To: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
From: None <Mark_Weaver@brown.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 01/13/1994 19:07:00
> So I can't have setuid shell scripts at all??  That is a moby lose.  I
> really don't give a rat's ass about security on my machine;
> reliability isn't even too vital, but I need to be able to write
> ridiculous shell scripts!  How else is one supposed to survive unix?

Check out perl.  It is a great language for scripts anyway, and it allows
SetUID scripts in a secure fashion.

	Mark
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