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Date:      Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:55:48 -0400
From:      Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>
To:        "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Root privileges without root
Message-ID:  <35E47654.E2BE73F5@graphnet.com>

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Hi,

I am trying to write a web front end for some applications. 
One of the major things it needs to do is run pw, which is
only usable by root. Of course, a web page isn't root unless
Apache is root, which I don't really want to do. Is there any 
way for me to give my script root privileges just for the time
that it does pw? Or is there _any_ other way around this? 

Thanks again!

Roman
-- 
Roman Katsnelson    <-- Unix/NT Sys.Admin.  
Graphnet, Inc.      <-- HQ at Teaneck
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