From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Oct 26 13: 3:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bekool.com (ns2.netquick.net [216.48.34.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 195FB14F90; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:02:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trouble@netquick.net) Received: from bastille.netquick.net ([216.48.32.159] helo=netquick.net ident=root) by bekool.com with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 11gDDS-000Ors-00; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 20:29:10 +0000 Message-ID: <38160D23.8FF1A6BF@netquick.net> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:20:51 -0500 From: TrouBle Reply-To: trouble@netquick.net Organization: Hacked Furbies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Running scripts as root under Apache References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org okay, with a brief explaination i have scripts that run under apache, user/group/nobody... now say these scripts are to update/add/remove/modify users/passwords using either pw, or pwd_mkdb... how can i get around the errors of these utilities needing to be run as root, in order to be effective ??? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message