Re: execute command from HTML page

[Jon-o Addleman <jonathan.addleman@mail.mcgill.ca>]

On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 09:27:22PM +0000, Debian User spake thusly:
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:44:33PM +1030, Barney Wrightson wrote:
> > Actually you wouldn't even need the HTML at all, you could simply
> > enter 
> > the address of the cgi script into your browser and load it to cause
> > it 
> > to execute. Provided that apache and user permissions were set up
> > correctly.
> will try that, am unsure of how to give a lowly user [such as www-data]
> enough rights to access wvdial[complains that it cannot acess device
> /dev/ttyS1 which is the modem]. -this is a router box and currently only
> has two users: root and hugh, root is root and hugh is used for my
> email, i cannot start wvdial from hugh account. How would i give hugh
> [or www-data] the privaleges to start wvdial

I missed the beginning of the thread, but a better solution for
controlling a dialup connection from several computers might be to use
connectd. I've had great success with it. Search google for it - it's
not packaged for debian, but it's very simple to install.
 

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Jon-o Addleman