Equivalent of suidperl ?

[Johannes Stezenbach]

Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net> wrote:
>On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 04:02:19PM +0000, Arun Sharma wrote:
>
>> The subject says it all. How can I run setuid python scripts on UNIX ?
>
>You cannot, at the moment, unless you use a C wrapper script. Searching the
>newsgroup/maillist (using www.python.org/search, for example) for 'setuid
>perl' should give you a couple of explanations why setuid scripts are
>unsafe, and maybe a couple of example wrapper scripts. If you can't find
>examples and can't figure one out yourself, I can send you one (the C
>wrapper we use for our setuid perl scripts, instead of suidperl.)

The Python source distribution comes with a C wrapper in the file
Misc/setuid_prog.c. Simply compile with
  cc -DFULL_PATH='"/path/to/my/script"' setuid-prog.c -o mysetuidscript

Johannes