On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:38:24AM +0200, Christopher Taylor wrote: > 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. Another option is to use the Net::Ping perl module instead of the ping command itself. -- Ryan Nowakowski Computer Support for Small Business and Individuals http://austincomputersupport.com
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