On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, James B. Williams II wrote:
> I just posted a question to the beginners-cgi list yesterday; I'm
> having almost the exact same problem. Both my cgi script and the script
> I am trying to call via system are owned by root, but I'm not sure if
> that is related to the user the cgi script is run as under the web
> server. (Forgive me if my vernacular is incorrect). Anyway, the
> important part is, how do I get the system call to work?
The ownership permissions aren't what is necessary here, it's the uid the
script & web server are running as. You are asking for some serious
security issues if you are trying to *run* CGI scripts as root (i.e., suid
root).
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
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