Hi All I have been playing with scripts to implement some "intranet functions" via a webrowser cgi interface.
However I quicky run into a problem with all cgi scripts running with a single uid/gid (normally that of the apache server). To make things work, I must give the httpd server user more rights than I want to (or make the cgi's suid root). What I am looking for is an httpd server + session manager that will: - Serve a default login page. - Authenticate a user via the system password files. - Setup a session for that user and keep track of that session. - Set the uid/gid of all cgi's launched on behalf of that user, to be the uid/gid of that user. The idea is to be able to write simple cgi's to do things like modify a ".forward" file, or connect to a database with that user's gid/uid. Has anybody been down this road before? One idea, I notice that the ftp server always runs with the uid of the user, once the user has been authenticated. I wonder if one could use an ftp server to launch cgi scripts? Would the browser still display the resulting html correctly? Thanks Ian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Forbes ZSD http://www.zsd.co.za Office: +27 21 683-1388 Fax: +27 21 674-1106 Snail Mail: P.O. Box 46827, Glosderry, 7702, South Africa --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
