[gah, replying to myself] On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 12:08:37AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > But it is actually a /usr/bin/perl script (not suidperl?!) and group > debwww. Since Linux kernel explicitely forbids setuid scripts, and I guess > that includes Perl, this would mean that the parent process would already > have to be suid to run it, so the suid bit on the file isn't worth much.
Actually, I've seen this work. Strange. > Finally, is the stuff in /org/www.debian.org/update.mirrors etc used by > anything? The script has a wrong path to ~archvsync and the READMEs aren't > quite clear... The paths in the web scripts were fixed, too, BTW. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification