Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 12:22:43 -0500 From: devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org To: Dave Raven <dave@kill-9.za.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setuid. Message-ID: <20020103122243.A14995@tharmas.rintrah.org> In-Reply-To: <002f01c19479$3d688c20$3800a8c0@DAVE>; from dave@kill-9.za.net on Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 07:08:16PM %2B0200 References: <EB513E68D3F5D41191CA000255588101B436D0@mailserv.xpert.com> <002f01c19479$3d688c20$3800a8c0@DAVE>
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On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 07:08:16PM +0200, Dave Raven wrote: > Yes, but the perl program needs to run another program as root. > No variables are passed or anything. Can you run that *other* program suid, then? At least that way the suid program won't be directly exposed to the web. > What it does is get a version number for a program (from kernel) > Later I will need to add rules (bandwidth manager) and this HAS to be done > from > the web and as root. > > Is there a better way, or how do I do it this way? > --devin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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