Bill Platt wrote:
>
> Bill,
>
> Thanks. It is a permissions problem. The newbie is really
> showing now. I am assuming that the script is running as
> Nobody? I am also assuming that I would be creating a
> security risk by adding Nobody to the Root group?
>
> The company I work for is a startup company and when I
> came in, I was the only one who knew the tech side well
> enough to be in charge of the server. I have been trying
> to learn linux as I go, and I am trying to learn how to
> use perl to improve our productivity. Sometimes, I think
> I am in over my head, but I always press onward.
>
> Since it is a permissions problem, do you have any
> suggestions you may offer to me?
First you should read all of the perlsec and other pertinent docs.
When you're reasonably sure you know what you are doing, you may
want to run it as a setuid script in taint mode being careful to
not allow any other users access. Maybe put it under basic
authentication to start with and restrict it's functionality to
the aliases thingy. There are tons of things to learn when
administering UNIX and then the Perl implications on top of that.
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