[vox-tech] Running a suid root perl script

[Ken Herron]

--On Saturday, May 03, 2003 07:34:01 AM -0700 Henry House 
<hajhouse@houseag.com> wrote:

> I created suid.pl as
>
> 	#!/usr/bin/sperl5.8.0 -T
> 	print $ENV{"USER"}."\n";

USER is just a string in the process's environment. It isn't 
automatically updated when you run a setuid program. Try having the perl 
script print its real and effective UIDs, or create a file and see what 
ID owns it.

-- 
Ken Herron