> 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?

        It's acessing the port directly. Thanks, TTYL

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