Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 17:46:34 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Gustafson <guff@falconsoft.com> To: chas <panda@peace.com.my> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How can CGI script execute root commands or edit root-owned files ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980402174515.29543A-100000@falconsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980403023610.009a1ad0@peace.com.my>
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> One suggestion I've had was running the webserver > as root but this seems to be considered > not a good thing by and large. I was just looking > at updating user records and DNS records in such > a manner. how about installing the suexec wrapper on the server, and then setting the particular site's user to root? that way other people on the site can't use root's privelages, but you can? I don't know if this is even possible since suexec might not allow it, but it's a thought. tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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