Perl security question/RFC

[Ivan Avery Frey]

Madison Kelly asked:

> So then, my question is, what is the most secure, *reasonable* way to let a
> perl program execute commands as root?

Rick Delaney wrote:

> Anyway, you're much better off using sudo to control access to commands. You
> should definitely run the perl script with tainting enabled to help prevent
> you from passing bad args to the sudo commands.
> 

So the most reasonable way to perl execute commands as root is for root to run perl.

Thus the need for sudo. This is the way Mac OS X does it.

Ivan.
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