Freeside installation problem

[Patrick Greenwell]

On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Ivan Kohler wrote:

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> Hello,
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> Your system needs to support executing the cgi's as the freeside user.
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> Your system might support (safe) setuid scripts.  At least Solaris and
> Linux do, and SunOS doesn't.  I'm not sure about others.  If your system
> doesn't support setuid scripts (by ignoring the setuid bit), Perl should
> emulate this behavior.  This is a compile time option, and I _think_ you
> might have to turn it on explicitly.  On my devlopment machine (Debian
> pre-2.0), the `perl-suid' package is part of the standard installation.

Hi, I just grabbed the package, and under BSDi 3.1 with setuid/setgid
emulation in Perl it does not work. I went and recompiled Perl 
in order to verify this behaviour.

While understand the basic desire behind UID.pm, I cannot find a
particularly good reason to do all the UID/GID gyrations. Is there a
compelling reason not to run an iteration of the server as user freeside
with appropriate authentication? 


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