[lug] setuid in redhat >= 7.3

[Dan Stimits]

Charles Menzes wrote:
> A quick google shows a lot of people asking questions very similar to this 
> one, however I'm not seeing any responses. A few setuid perl scripts that 
> I have on a RH7.2 machine run just fine, however moved over to 7.3 and 
> they all get the "Can't do setuid" errors in the logs. Is there a way to 
> remedy this? I'm using Passwd::Linux in my script which I think will be 
> the sticking point for requiring setuid.
> I've read in the google links that its a kernel change that is the 
> culprit. Is there any way out, without downgrading kernels?
> 
> thanks -c
> 
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I can't say the answer, but many such similar circumstances turn out to 
be a PAM setting in /etc/pam.d/

D. Stimits