On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 13:19 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 08:27 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > 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? > > I take it from the fact that no one has responded to this question that > suexec is not possible in PHP on Gentoo. Is there some other language I > can do this project in, such as perl or ruby, or anything freely > available on Gentoo for that matter that would allow my users to use a > web-based website editor and save the files to their own webspace?
I found www-apache/mod_suphp, which seems to be what I need. It has several USE flags which I am unfamiliar with, such as mode-force, mode-owner, mode-paranoid, etc. Is there a way that I could find out what these flags mean? They are not in /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc... -- [email protected] mailing list
