Re: [LIP] using perl to change password

On 26/03/04 01:37 -0800, vivek khurana wrote:
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> my web app hangs. I had set uid to zero using
> setuid(0) before calling this script. 
Your script will have to be suid root.
A non root script cannot call setuid(0) and expect it to work.
/me suggests using 
#!/usr/bin/perl -T

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI::Carp;

Devdas Bhagat


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