Try setting up a tcpserver/tcpclient system to do what you want.
tcpserver runs as alias or root. tcpclient passes in the info you want to
change and you can set up your authentication rules/access restrictions in
a way that make sense for your system.
I use this quite a bit and it has been VERY useful.
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Kai MacTane wrote:
> I'd like to set up a CGI script that allows certain users to modify certain
> aliases from a Web form. This would include creating and deleting a few,
> which would require write access to the alias directory.
>
> Looking at the permissions on that directory, I see they're "drwxr-sr-x",
> which leads me to wonder: Does anyone know if qmail would have a problem
> with changing those permissions?
>
> While we're at it, there's got to be a better way than making that
> directory world-writable. A SUID script and use of sudo also come to mind.
> However, none of these options sound fantastically attractive, and if
> anyone has other ideas on how to do this, I'd be open to suggestions.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Kai MacTane
> System Administrator
> Online Partners.com, Inc.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996)
>
> hired gun /n./
>
> A contract programmer, as opposed to a full-time staff member. All
> the connotations of this term suggested by innumerable spaghetti
> Westerns are intentional.
>
>
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