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Date:      Sat, 30 Nov 2002 23:37:16 -0500
From:      Kirk Bailey <idiot1@netzero.net>
To:        Andrew Prewett <andrew@kronos.HomeUnix.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Run as owner
Message-ID:  <3DE991FC.20200@netzero.net>
References:  <20021130162024.V47670-100000@slave.east.ath.cx>

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This script is not perl, it is in python. So far the python community has 
failed in the search for clue, possibly this one can assist?

Andrew Prewett wrote:
> On Nov 29 Kirk Bailey wrote:
> 
> 
>>OK, man says to get a script to run as the owner, turn on the 4000 bit.
> 
> 
> If you execute a script, and the first line begins
> with `#!/usr/bin/perl -w' (in case of a perl script) and the sript is
> marked executable then the kernel executes it like:
> 
>  exec("/usr/bin/perl", "perl", "-w", "script", NULL)
> 
> (It's not exact, just to point out that the setuid/setgid bit is
> normally irrevelant on scripts)
> 
> See execve(2) for more.
> 
> 
>>OK, I did. No such luck, it continues to run as the apache identity 'nobody'.
>>
>>Any advice?
>>
> 
> 
> If it's a `cgi' script, then you might need apache suexec.
> If you have the ksh shell, try with suid_exec.
> 
> 	-andrew
> 
> 
> 
> 


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