Re: execute application from webinterface

[Christopher Taylor <taylor@inf.fu-berlin.de>]

Jens Gutzeit wrote:
> On Monday 01 September 2003 21:53, mario ohnewald wrote:
> > What is the securest way of starting a application, like ping, from a
> > webinterface as a diffrent user.
what's wrong with making the program suid-to-some-other-user (not root) 
and then just executing it? I reallize this doesn't work for ping, which 
is suid-to-root anyway.

Greetings,
  --Chris