Synopsis: suggestion: check permissions via os-userbase State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: marc State-Changed-When: Mon Aug 11 09:04:01 PDT 1997 State-Changed-Why: It is far more complicated than you make out to do so. You then need to trust your web server with root and Apache would have to run as root. That isn't acceptable. You also run into difficult issues with the (lack of) decent security in web-based authentication.
We do have suexec, to let CGI scripts be run as users, but it works slightly differently and is implemented by an external wrapper that changes the uid. Thanks for the suggestion.
