On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Herbert Graf wrote:
> 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?

Can't you chown the parallel port device? "chown apache:apache /dev/lp0"
or something?

Cheers,

Tim

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