SUID
am 31.01.2006 07:25:03 von Dan NI've run into a problem that I don't know how to fix. I'm running
OpenWebMail from Apache2 as a perl cgi script on Debian Sarge. It's
running on a very old 166 MHz PC, so I wanted to speed things up using
persistant Perl, so I installed speedy-cgi-perl.
In the main OpenWebMail script, I replaced the
#!/usr/bin/perl
with
#!/usr/bin/speedy
It didn't work, so I changed back to the original, made no other changes.
I thought that everything would work as before, but now the script returns
an error "must setuid to root".
Either installing speedy-cgi-perl or running speedy from the script has
changed something, but I don't know what or how to fix it. I don't think
installing speedy caused the problem, because OpenWebMail was still
working after I installed speedy but before I changed the script.
I'm not very clear on the details of how suid works with perl and can't
see where the problem is. I've restarted Apache, removed speed-cgi-perl,
rebooted the system, but the problem remains. Any help would be
appreciated.
Thanks
Dan