Re: cgi and ssh

[email protected] (David Dorward) Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:23:08 +0100
Newsgroups perl.beginners.cgi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dermot Paikkos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a cgi script that needs scp a file from one server to another. 
> Because the script runs under the httpd user
With suEXEC you can run that script (and only that script) under an
account you create with otherwise very limited privileges.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/suexec.html

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