Re: Allowing users to execute shell scripts without seeing password
- From: Mladen Gogala <gogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 00:56:29 -0500
On 02/18/2006 11:38:01 PM, Joseph Amalraj wrote:
> After doing some reading, I agree, that setting suid for shell scripts is
> poses
> security risks. Probably the solution is not to use Shell, but some else like
> Perl.
So, if switching UID is dangerous with a shell script, it will somehow be
rendered harmless if you use Perl, which allows all kinds of programming
tricks and hacks?
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