From: Randall Parker 

Why wouldn't the perl script run under your own context?

If the script files are in some shared directory and everyone has
read/execute access to the directory the scripts can run in their own
context.

Geo. wrote:

> Lets say I setup a website for you on the server, what user context does a
> perl script from your website run in? IUSER right? With that permission
> level you now have access to every other website on the server, so you can
> get into areas you have no business getting into (like the adult website
> hosted next to you). You also have the capability to use server bandwidth
> and cpu for something other than serving web pages. For example you could
> easily write a ping flooder or a web spider using perl and then you've got a
> DS3 worth of bandwidth to play with.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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