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Re: Where to install a program called by an Apache module?



On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:47:12PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 01:31:13AM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I'm packaging mod_auth_shadow. It uses a setuid binary to be able to
> > read /etc/shadow. Upstream installs it in /usr/sbin, but I don't think
> 
> just a sidenote, but it should be setgid shadow on debian, instead of
> setuid root.  

Right. Then it won't be possible to limit execution to Apache by doing
chgrp www-data and chmod o-x, but I guess it's worth it.

Marcin
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