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["Mark Duling" <address@concealed>]

I've run Sympa 5.1 on OS X without suidperl.  I just install Sympa using
the Apache user/group, which for OS X is www/www.  I got the idea from
this list I believe.

Mark

Olivier Salaün - CRU <address@concealed> on Monday, November 21, 2005
at 11:41 PM -0800 wrote:
>Hi Nigel,
>
>Actually we changed this notification in the next release :
>
>
>##################################
>## 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"
>#####################################################
>
>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: 
>
>################################## 
>## 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) 
>-------------------------------------- 
>
>Is it really required? Apple aren't distributing perl with suidperl,  and
>it seems like other vendors are stopping it too. 
>
>