Hi All,
I've been working with sudo thing awhile ago but haven't got it
any luck.
In sudoers file, I have an entry for this user:
test host.domain.com = NOPASSWD: /bin/cat
user test can execute cat command without having a root password,
right? This works well in user shell.
[test@host]$ sudo cat /etc/ftpaccess
In a perl cgi script, i want to use this user to execute cat command,
the script is something like this:
system('sudo', '-u', 'test', 'cat', '/etc/ftpaccess');
My question is, is it possible for a web user (www/nodody/apache) to
execute this command? I tried it awhile ago but it doesn't work, it will
work if i replace the user to www and add an entry to sudoers file
but i dont like that idea since coz it will open up security hole in
the system.
Any idea how to make this thing work?
TIA
glynn
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