Re: Running a CGI script as root

2002-03-08 Thread Rob Helmer
Hello, I don't understand why you need to be root, I would suggest finding another means, for security reasons. Can you explain a little more about this? That said, here is one way you can do it : Have you seen the sudo command? You can give root access to specific users ( or groups of users

Running a CGI script as root

2002-03-08 Thread Paolo Cavicchini
Hello, I need to write a CGI script able to launch, from an Intranet Web page, an executable on my Linux RH. To do that I need to run the executable as root because it works fine only if I've got root's privileges. The problem is: I cannot do that. Could anyone gives me any help? Thank you Paolo