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Re: "setuid(UID)" and "chmod 4550" misbehaving



On Monday 21 June 2004 09:23, Will Trillich wrote:
> TASK:     allow USER1 to run a program AS USER2.
> SOLUTION: setuid bit (in theory, right?)
> PROBLEM:  theory not matching execution...

Sounds obvious, but make sure user www-data is in the list of users in 
the /etc/group file for group www-data.  Setting it only as the group of the 
user in /etc/passwd might not be good enough.

	Sean O'Dell



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