From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 26 16:11:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA12938 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:11:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA12888 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:10:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 18129 invoked by uid 1003); 26 Aug 1998 23:10:02 -0000 Message-ID: <19980827011001.A17427@rucus.ru.ac.za> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 01:10:01 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Roman Katsnelson , "q's" Subject: Re: Root privileges without root References: <35E47654.E2BE73F5@graphnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <35E47654.E2BE73F5@graphnet.com>; from Roman Katsnelson on Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 04:55:48PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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