On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 15:37, Herbert Graf wrote:
> Was wondering if someone here would be able to help me with something.
>
> I have a script on a linux machine that runs a program that accesses the
> parallel port. It seems that I can only access the port as root. The problem
> is I'd like to run the script as apache (in the cgi-bin).
>
> I've tried setuid but that fails. Anyone know how I might open up hardware
> access to user apache? Or how to get apache to run the script AS root?
>
> Thanks, TTYL

Use sudo. Edit /etc/sudoers and include something like this;

apache  ALL = NOPASSWD: <full path to script including options>

Read the man page for sudoers. The decode goes something liek this,

apache     The user to whom this entry aplies
ALL        The machines on which the user may run the command
NOPASSWD:  Do not require the user to enter their password
<...>      The command the user may run as root


HTH
Rob

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