Re: Perl CGI script running as root is unable to do rm, chmod and su

[email protected] (Wijnand Wiersma) Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:01:31 +0200
Newsgroups perl.beginners.cgi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jimisola Laursen schreef:
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying make one script (script1) call another script (script2) and
> have the output from script2 returned.
> My initial problem was that script2 needs to be executed as root, so
> I've set the setuid and setgid bit on script1 (script2 unchanged):
So script1 is executed as regular user? In that case you are either
running Linux or the partition is mounted with nosuid. In both cases
scripts are not allowed to run suid.

Regards,
Wijnand