Re: [cgiapp] access permission

[Cees Hek <suppressed>]

Jan Dworschak wrote:
> Hi,
> hope i'm in the right list for that question, sorry if not ;)
>
> I'm writing a cgi-perl-script. In that I want to get access to an file 
> on an Linux Server.
> The problem is that when I start it from the web-browser I run the 
> script under the user of the web-server.
> But only the owner of the file has read and write permissions 
> (rw-------) !!!
> So, I have to authorize me. How can I make that in Perl?

If you want to run a CGI script under a different user than what the web 
server runs as, you need to look at the suexec module that comes with 
Apache.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/suexec.html

Of course this will only work if you have full control of the Apache 
server.  But since suexec is not configured already, and you can execute 
CGI scripts, I am assuming you are not hosting this on a shared box (all 
shared hosting environments that I know of use some sort of suexec like 
features), and you can make changes to the apache configuration to setup 
suexec.

Cheers,

Cees

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