Hi Felix, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aerfx wrote: > I want to open a file (testmesg.txt) for reading and writing. Ok, > normally that is no problem ;) > But my script runs by "www-data" and the file I want to edit belongs the > user "testuser" and > lays in /home/testuser/testmesg.txt. So I have no direct access to this > file... > But now, I put the userinformation $username="testuser" and > $unixpasswd="secret" in my script. > Is there any way to open this file by the script with the new username > and passwd? Something > like sudo for perl... > > I had to run the programm as www-data! > The programmdir is ../cgi-bin/testscript.pl (htaccess)
Can't you just change the permissions on your testmesg.txt to world-readable? (directories need to also be executable) Another possibility (someone here will likely have a better answer) might be to run the script in setuid mode (use chmod to set permissions for script to '4755'); script will run as its owner instead as 'www-data'. -Kevin -- Kevin Pfeiffer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
