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Designate a directory that will hold the various password and group
files, for example /etc/httpd/security.  Make it owned and writable by
a specially-designated "web administrator" account, for example "www".
Now, running as root, change the ownership of <cite>user_manage</cite>
to "www" and set its "s" bit:

<blockquote><pre>
# <b>chown www user_manage</b>
# <b>chmod u+s user_manage</b>
# <b>ls -l user_manage</b>
-rwsr-xr-x   1 www   users      18928 Jan 14 03:47 user_manage*
</pre></blockquote>

In order for suid to work, this feature needs to be configured into
Perl when it is compiled.  You may need to reinstall Perl if suid was
not enabled, particularly if Perl came preinstalled on your system.
There is also a bug in perl 5.003 when running under some versions of
OSF/1 (Digital Unix) that causes suid scripts to exit silently without