[gentoo-user] Why can a perl script be executed suid root?

[gentoo-user] Why can a perl script be executed suid root?

[Dirk Heinrichs]

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Hi,

even if I rename suidperl, I can execute the following suid-root perl script 
as normal user and get two different uids (as expected, from a suid-root 
script).

#!/usr/bin/perl

# print euid
print $>."\n";
#print uid
print $<."\n";

I would expect that w/o suidperl I'd get the user's uid twice.

Bye...

	Dirk
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