Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 01:10:01 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za> To: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>, "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Root privileges without root Message-ID: <19980827011001.A17427@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <35E47654.E2BE73F5@graphnet.com>; from Roman Katsnelson on Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 04:55:48PM -0400 References: <35E47654.E2BE73F5@graphnet.com>
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On Wed 1998-08-26 (16:55), Roman Katsnelson wrote: > Apache is root, which I don't really want to do. Is there any > way for me to give my script root privileges just for the time > that it does pw? Or is there _any_ other way around this? Make a suid binary that does whatever you want for that time, and make sure only the web server, and not any of your users, can execute it? Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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