On Friday 16 August 2002 01:54 am, Brad wrote:
> Hi, I've written some IPchains into my perl script using perl-IPchains but
> the script has to be executed by root or ipchains refuses.
>
> Does anyone know how I can allow user "apache" to use ipchains, or how I
> can elevate my privileges within perl.
Make the script suid root... (e.g. chown root:apache script.pl ; chmod 4750
script.pl )
Be careful. This is very dangerous. If somebody breaks apache they can alter
your firewall.
-Mad
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