At 12:18 AM 4/24/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>I wanted o ask u about a problem regarding my project. The project is
>related to "Cyber Cafe Authentication". Here we have to chk whether a set
>of user name & password is valid and if valid allow this user access to
>internet. All the scripitng has been done in PHP and the operating system
>is linux. Now we just have to link "IP CHAINS" to our php script. That
>is when the user is allowed to access internet, ip chains should start
>running through the script. However we are stuck at this problem & cannot
>find a sound solution. Can u plz help us? That would be very nice :)
Something to think about - apache doesn't run as root, ipchains requires
that you be root. I suppose you could suid it, but that's an evil
solution. Other than that, I'd recommend reading up on ipchains... there's
a decent HOWTO at www.linux.org
Shawn
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