nt: Thursday, January 06, 2000 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: Re: OFF TOPIC - chmod with root permissions
> well you can do setuid to root but it's really unsafe..
> I think you should check about SSL ,
> but in general it's REALLY not safe to run things from the web under root
>
Well I'm not really sure what exaclly he tries to do ..
but I guess he could use SSL or one of the web admin programs that run
scripts for you..
I still try to get why he even touches the passwd file..
SSL looks like the must normal option in my homble opinion..
and btw there are already programs
How about, if Mike will write the script in a way that gets the
user/password combination for root from the user though a form?
usually why respond to this kind of question would be are you nuts??
you want to make a suid script?and not only a suid script but one that
edit your password file?
Actually, he might have a web-management tool already installed,
quite a bit of distributions now come with linuxconf installed.
Unfurtunately (at least that's how I see it), linuxconf's web interface
is enabled by default, just go to http://yourhost.com:98/.
Ereli wrote:
>
> Why write a new t
sorry, the _real_ site is http://www.webmin.com/webmin/
> Why write a new tool for something thats already been wrote?
> http://www.webmin.org
> - Original Message -
> From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Linux-il <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 6:45 PM
> Subject: OF
Why write a new tool for something thats already been wrote?
http://www.webmin.org
- Original Message -
From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Linux-il <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 6:45 PM
Subject: OFF TOPIC - chmod with root permissions
> Hi list.
> I wrote a manageme
usually why respond to this kind of question would be are you nuts??
you want to make a suid script?and not only a suid script but one that
edit your password file?how about adding a please hack me icon on the
frontpage of your hp?:)
Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel
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