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Re: May I run wml from a setuid program? (It seems not)



On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> In order to run from the Web server the update of HTML pages, I made a setuid 
> program so that wml can write files in a directory wehere the WWW user cannot.
> 
> But it fails:
> 	 
> Insecure $ENV{PATH} while running setuid at /local/lib/perl5/5.00503/Cwd.pm 
> line 82.

Hi Stephane,

this feature is well documented in wml_p2_eperl(1) in the Security
section.

-- 
Denis Barbier
WML Maintainer

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