This one time, at band camp, Peter Rundle wrote: >I'm looking for suggestions/recommendations for a way to run a command as a >specific user, but triggered from a web form submit button. The >corresponding action cgi runs as apache/apache, but I then need it to >trigger the running of a shell script as another unprivledged user.
You could use sudo to grant access to that binary and that binary only as the matlab user, from only the web user. It's not perfect from a security standpoint but it'd get the job done. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
