On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 08:15:26PM +0100, Stephan Beal wrote: > 2011/2/3 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <virik...@gmail.com> > > > If you don't use a root account for your CGI, you can use a setuid program > > for > > it to have such access to your files. Something like this here explained, > > but > > applied to fossil: > > http://vicerveza.homeunix.net/~viric/c<http://vicerveza.homeunix.net/%7Eviric/cgi-bin/offrss/doc/trunk/doc/cgi.wiki> > >
> setuid scripts are an option, but are an ugly ancient remnant of "more > civilized times" and are generally frowned upon for security reasons. If i'm > not mistaken (and i might be), recent Linux versions ignore the setuid bit > (or only allow it on a configurable list of files). And this is why that web page suggests a C program. :) Regards, Lluís _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
