On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:10:17PM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> I'm serving CGI off Apache from a mounted Win32 partition.
> Now, this means that the files are unchangably in mode 755.
> I want a CGI script to be able to change a data file, but apache executes as
> www-data
>
> Now, my two solutions are to either mount the entire thing as something more
> permission ( evil ), or have apache execute the cgis as the owner of the
> file. I've done this before using Zeus, and it's a really handy thing for
> when you have multiple virtual servers, and you don't want people to be able
> to read other web site's data files and scripts.
>
> Has anyone done this before, and remember what the Apache configuration
> options for it are.
I haven't played with this myself, but the "suEXEC" module for apache
seems to be what you want. Try looking at
http://www.apache.org/docs/suexec.html or, as always, search google :)
-Andrew.
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