how to get perl to do root things

[Russell]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:31:29PM -0000, Scott McWhirter wrote:
> anyone have a good link for how to get perl to run certain things like root 
> even when a normal user is running the script? (ndc and cp inpeticular).

I have no experience of it, but I'd expect you'd want to run it set uid as
whoever has permission to correctly run ndc and to copy the files you
require.
chmod u+s <file> should do this, if it is owned by the correct user.
man chmod for more information, or do a web search for set uid / suid
information.

HTH,
Russell

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