Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 14:14:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: TrouBle <trouble@netquick.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Answer needed??? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910261412520.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <381606F7.6C9906E8@netquick.net>
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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
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