Re: Executing pdflatex via CGI script

2004-10-18 Thread Jan Eden
Hi Gunnar, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote on 17.10.2004: >Jan Eden wrote: >>The script manages to write data to my output file if I created it >>first and chmodded it to 666, but fails otherwise. >> >>This is because the script is run by the web user, of course. Is >>there a more or less secure way to

Re: Executing pdflatex via CGI script

2004-10-17 Thread Bill Jones
--- Jan Eden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a) create / write to a file > b) apply pdflatex to that file (i.e. create a pdf file from the .tex > source) > c) open the resulting pdf file (using the open function in OS X) Set Group ID Directories? Um, allow the pdflatex to run as the web userid? Ma

Re: Executing pdflatex via CGI script

2004-10-17 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Jan Eden wrote: The script manages to write data to my output file if I created it first and chmodded it to 666, but fails otherwise. This is because the script is run by the web user, of course. Is there a more or less secure way to allow the script to a) create / write to a file b) apply pdflatex

Executing pdflatex via CGI script

2004-10-17 Thread Jan Eden
Hi, I wrote a script which takes some info from the user and generates a form letter. The script is run locally for five users, so security is not that important (although it is always important, I know). The script manages to write data to my output file if I created it first and chmodded it