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Date:      Fri, 3 Apr 1998 02:13:51 +0800 (SGT)
From:      chas <panda@peace.com.my>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   How can CGI script execute root commands or edit root-owned files ?
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19980403023610.009a1ad0@peace.com.my>

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Since a CGI script is executed with Nobody's (the web
server's) privilegies, how it can run Administrator 
commands like useradd ?

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.

Cheers,

Chas

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