On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 18:35, Herbert Graf wrote:
> > 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

Running anything as root is always a bit dicey if you ask me. I'll have
a sift around and see what surfaces.

Rob

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