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[Olivier Salaün - CRU <address@concealed>]

Hi Nigel,

Actually we changed this notification in the next release :

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## You don't have suidperl installed."
## Suidperl is the default way to run WWSympa with SetUID."
## Among other options, you can use suExec with Apache"
## Check Sympa reference manual for more details"
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Maybe we should even discourage this solution (that had the advantage of been quite transparent for the listmaster).

Another solution that we didn't explore yet is using Sudo to run wwsympa setuid. Any feedback is welcome....

Nigel Kersten wrote: I'm trying to put together a package installer for sympa for Mac OS  X, and in the course of re-installing, I've noticed I had this error:

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## You don't have suidperl installed.
## Suidperl is required to run WWSympa with SetUID.
#####################################################

>From browsing around, this kind of line seems to be what the Perl  people say about suidperl at the moment...

--------from Perl Changes 5.8---------
Note that the security scare is only relevant for those who  arefoolish enough to build suidperl (which is now officially  discouraged)
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Is it really required? Apple aren't distributing perl with suidperl,  and it seems like other vendors are stopping it too.

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