> 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

        I looked into sudo, it doesn't appear to be an option, unless you can think
of a way to have apache use it when calling a script? I want to access a URL
that calls the script, the script returns image data. Thanks, TTYL

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