Hello, I hope I don't ask somtething too stupid, but I'm trying to port a C-program to Perl and for the drop privileges part of it I'd need to call setresuid().
The following test at 4.3 returns a failure though: $ perl -M'POSIX qw(setresuid)' -e 1 "setresuid" is not exported by the POSIX module Can't continue after import errors at /usr/libdata/perl5/i386-openbsd/5.8.8/POSIX.pm line 19 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted. The perl config script does find the setresuid during a "make build": ... setpwent() found. setpwent_r() NOT found. setregid() found. setresgid() found. setreuid() found. setresuid() found. setrgid() NOT found. ... So why isn't it used by perl then? Is there a safe way to drop root privileges in a Perl-script at OpenBSD? Several resources at the net tell that $< and $> can't be used for the purpose because they are cached Regards Alex
