Best way to gain root privileges

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On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:47:10 +0100, Alexander Kapps wrote:

>> Having said that I'm possibly arriving at the conclusion that a quick
>> perl script might be the simplest/easiest and most secure option - I
>> read perl includes code to safely run suid perl scripts - will dig out
>> my perl tomes.
> 
> Not sure, but Perl is just another "scripting language" (hate that 
> term) and you cannot have scripts be SUID.

Perl installations may include a setuid version of the Perl interpreter
under the name "sperl", which effectively allows you to have setuid Perl
scripts.