Running CGI as root

Ben Pfaff pfaffben@msu.edu
29 Mar 2000 15:57:11 -0500


Benjamin Minshall <bminsh@mudbucket.goeke.net> writes:

> > What language is it written in?  Shell scripts can't be setuid,
> > you know.
> 
> It was a shell script; however, I've scratched that now.
> How about Perl?

Perl goes through some special convolutions to ensure that you
can indeed write setuid Perl programs.