[BlueOnyx:11514] Re: Need CGI script to execute command as root

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Subject: [BlueOnyx:11512] Re: Need CGI script to execute command as root


>>> If you copy /etc/httpd/conf.d/perl.conf to /etc/admserv/conf.d/ and
>>> restart AdmServ, it'll execute Perl scripts. But the scripts from the
>>> RaQ4 might still not work, because it could be that they require RaQ4
>>> specific libraries which BlueOnyx doesn't have.
>
> I tried that, and was not successfull -- it still just displayed the
> script when named .cgi or the browser tried to download it when named .pl.
> So, I decided to rewrite the Perl script in PHP instead. How hard could it
> be?
>
> I found a couple fantastic references that made the conversion to PHP
> super easy by giving side by side comparisons of both languages:
>
> http://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting
>
> http://www.cs.wcupa.edu/~rkline/perl2php/
>
>
> Anyway, my rewritten PHP script now works fine EXCEPT that I get a
> Permission Denied error when it actually goes to create the symlink.
>
> My form html and PHP pages are both in a subfolder of the
> /usr/sausalito/ui/web folder. When I submit the form, the debug output on
> the script shows that I am passing and parsing the variables just fine.
> When my script gets to the part where it calls the PHP symlink function, I
> get this error message:
>
> Warning: symlink() [function.symlink]: Permission denied in
> {scriptname.php} on line 124
>
> The symlink source dir is owned by root, permissions 0755. The target dir
> is owned by the siteadmin:group of the site it is created in, with
> permissions 2755.
>
> If I manually create a symlink from the commandline (logged in as root),
> it succeeds.
>
> I am guessing that the PHP script is failing because it is not running as
> root, even though it is running via admserv and not regular httpd.
>
> Are there any ideas on how to resolve this permission denied problem?
>
> Regards,
>
> David Thacker
>
> _______________________________________________
FWIW... How about a cronjob run as root?
David