On Thu, Sep 18, 1997 at 03:45:17PM -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote: : >If that's all you want, it's easy. Do this: : > : >1) Authenticate the user against the system's /etc/passwd. : : OK, my script is doing this. The user can enter his login ID and his : password through a HTML form and the CGI script validates the user against : /etc/passwd making sure the UID of the users is >= 1000. : : >2) Use Apache's suEXEC module to run the CGI under the user's UID, : > after authenticating the user. : : This sounds like the solution but where can I find this module? It is not : part of the apache-modules package.
It's part of Apache 1.2 feature set.. See: http://www.apache.org/docs/suexec.html for more info... -- Jason Costomiris <>< | "VMS is about as secure as a poodle [EMAIL PROTECTED] | encased in a block of lucite.... http://www.jasons.org/~jcostom/ | .... about as useful, too." #include <disclaimer.h> | --some guy I read on Usenet -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
