Perl security question/RFC

[Christopher Browne]

On 7/19/06, Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> FWIW, I am not using setuid perl scripts. Only the C-wrapper will be
> setuid. :)

It seems to me that you'd likely be better off using setuid Perl
scripts, and eschewing the C wrapper.  That's likely to be better
protection.
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Oddly enough, this is completely standard behaviour for shells. This
is a roundabout way of saying `don't use combined chains of `&&'s and
`||'s unless you think Gödel's theorem is for sissies'.
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