Re: CGI setuid programs

2012-05-22 Thread Marek Nožka
On Fri, 11 May 2012 17:25:35 -0300 Tessio Fechine wrote to beginners@perl.org: > Hello, > Everywhere I read about cgi setuid programs says that it is wrong and must > never be done, > but nobody says how to circumvent the need of it. > In my case, I need to read a password from a

Re: CGI setuid programs

2012-05-11 Thread David Christensen
On 05/11/2012 01:25 PM, Tessio Fechine wrote: Everywhere I read about cgi setuid programs says that it is wrong and must never be done, but nobody says how to circumvent the need of it. In my case, I need to read a password from a protected file (read only, owned by root) to connect to a

CGI setuid programs

2012-05-11 Thread Tessio Fechine
Hello, Everywhere I read about cgi setuid programs says that it is wrong and must never be done, but nobody says how to circumvent the need of it. In my case, I need to read a password from a protected file (read only, owned by root) to connect to a database. How can I do this without running