Anatoly Pugachev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:02:31AM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: > | Arun Naik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | > Hi, > | > I have to run a program from apache server, whose owner is root. As apache > | > server runs from user apache, it is not able to run the program ( owned by > | > root). Is there any way out ? > | > | If the program needs to run *as* root, it would need to be setuid, > | which is very dangerous if not done with extraordinary care. > > or you can try to use sudo with apache user set to NOPASSWD in > sudoers and allowing to run only this command. default sudoers file > have examples on this.
This is still very dangerous if not done with extraordinary care. ----Scott. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
