On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 22:29 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> If the shell assigned to user 'apache' is "/bin/false", can user apache
> become other users via su or sudo?  What I want to do is create a
> web-based website editor, similar to the one geocities.com offers.  I
> need a way to store the website editor in a central location where it
> will be available to all users, but the users need to be able to save
> the files they create/edit in their own web space (in this case under
> ~/webspace/html).  I want the users to be able to log in with their
> Linux usernames and passwords.  I"ve written to a couple of PHP lists
> about this, but none of them have answered me.  Is there anything in
> portage that will do this, so I don't have to write it myself?  I've
> waded through a lot of descriptions of scripts other people have
> written, but none of them seemed to allow authenticating against the
> users and passwords already established on the system...

Someone on one of my PHP lists wrote back and told me that I needed to
make php with phpsuexec, but I don't see that as one of the USE flags.
Is it called something else in Gentoo?

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