Bug 16104 - suidperl
Summary: suidperl
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: perl
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Crutcher Dunnavant
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Reported: 2000-08-13 18:07 UTC by mal
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-08-13 18:07:11 UTC
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Description mal 2000-08-13 18:07:10 UTC
Can suid bit on execution 
can be removed from /usr/bin/suidperl 
by default?.
Not that many people use /usr/bin/suidperl anyway
and those who use it can do chmod u+s manually.
Securities issues 
(like those in SUSE http://lwn.net/daily/suse-perl.php3 )
will not be an issue any more.

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-08-16 23:22:01 UTC
Removing the setuid bit would break things in a non-obvious way.  It will be
broken into a subpackage and not installed by default in future releases.


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