PERL CGI Beginners - running a program

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running a program

Octavian Rasnita

2004-09-27, 8:55 am

Hello,

I want to make a cgi program that can be accessed from the web and which
can run a certain program using another user than the web server's user.

Please help me for two things:

1. Tell me how to run any simple program using my own user.

2. Tell me how to run a certain program using root's priviledges if my user
can use them using the "sudo su" command.

For example I want to create a program that can launch the following
command:

service sshd start

Thank you.

Teddy

Bill Jones

2004-09-27, 3:55 pm

--- Octavian Rasnita <orasnita@fcc.ro> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I want to make a cgi program that can be accessed from the web and
> which
> can run a certain program using another user than the web server's
> user.
>
> Please help me for two things:
>
> 1. Tell me how to run any simple program using my own user.
>
> 2. Tell me how to run a certain program using root's priviledges if
> my user
> can use them using the "sudo su" command.
>
> For example I want to create a program that can launch the following
> command:
>
> service sshd start

You first need to get "promoted to" the appropriate userid.

There is an example of how to do this in my CPAN directory (listed
under sneex) - but I used expect (expect.nist.gov) not Perl per se.

What yo are s

ing to do isn't secure - so I would protect the cgi via
ssl with basic authentication.

HTH/Sx

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