On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:22:50AM -0700, rad radsys wrote: > Hi Gurus, > > it may sound easy for you guys but....
You're right that it's easy. Shooting yourself in the foot generally is. > im trying to make a cgi script that will execute system administrative commands, > which is root user only. so how will i tell the system where the administrative > commands will be run that i'm "root" user, since im going to execute commands via my > cgi script? I'm using apache 1.3.. Let me make this simple: DON'T DO IT. No, no no no no and no again. If you even have to ask the above question, you are not ready to do this. Your machine will be 0wn'd quickly. This is not something that you want to do. Check out "webmin", which will likely do whatever it was that you wanted to do. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
