I'm not saying you have to become root. I'm simply saying that for some
people it's a temptation ("If I change this to root, I don't have to worry
about ownership problems ever again").
6:21pm, Vladimir D Belousov wrote:
Why root? Just the user who has permissions to do something.
Paul Archer wrote:
Beware that this can be a fix that causes more problems. It's very tempting
to let the web server run as root--which opens up a big can of security
worms.
Paul
11:25am, Vladimir D Belousov wrote:
... But if you have enabled SuEXEC (see the output `httpd -l`), your
script will run as user/group you specify.
Paul Archer wrote:
This is a very common problem. When you run the script from the command
line, you are running it with different privileges and a different path
than when the web server runs it.
Most likely, either the command is not in the path for CGI scripts (try
setting $ENV{PATH} or calling the command with the full pathname), or the
web server, which should run as 'nobody', doesn't have permission to run
the command properly.
10:29am, TapasranjanMohapatra wrote:
All,
i am new to cgi. Please let me know why I dont get the data printed?
I have abc.cgi in /var/www/cgi-bin
When the $cmd is "ls" I get the filenames when I visit
localhost/cgi-bin/abc.cgi
But when the $cmd is the snmpquerry, I get nothing on the page, though I
get the desired output(value of sysContact.0) when I run the script in
commandline.
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#! /usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print <<"END OF PRINT";
<html>
<head><title>test</title></head>
<body>
END OF PRINT
my $cmd = "snmpget 23.23.23.23 public sysContact.0";
#my $cmd = "ls";
my $res = qx!$cmd!;
chomp($res);
print <<"end of print";
<center>
$res
</center>
</body></html>
end of print
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TIA
Tapas
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