From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 26 13:51:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB11C14F67 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:51:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA12934; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 14:14:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 14:14:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: TrouBle Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Answer needed??? In-Reply-To: <381606F7.6C9906E8@netquick.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, TrouBle wrote: > 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 ??? by writing extremely careful wrappers that exec setuid binaries would be my guess. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message