On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Phil wrote:

> This thought might be coming from other related readings I've been doing lately but 
>if I
> want to set the default config to be ~HOME/.analogrc do I need to recompile the
> anlgform.cgi ?
> In case this isn't clear, the objective would be to allow any user to run analog 
>based on
> a config file in their home directory. Also I would want analog to run as the userid 
>of
> the user calling anlgform.cgi
> 
> could someone outline the correct way to set this up.
> 

I don't think this is possible, is it? The cgi program always runs as the
server. There's not even any way for it to know who's submitted the request.

Of course, you can apply some heuristic based on hostname, or allowing people
to select their name on the form, but you will have to write another program
to process that information.

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