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From: Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Way OT - Can user apache become other users?
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:32:06
Message-Id: 1145021248.6797.13.camel@camille.espersunited.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Way OT - Can user apache become other users? by Michael Sullivan
1 On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 22:29 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
2 > If the shell assigned to user 'apache' is "/bin/false", can user apache
3 > become other users via su or sudo? What I want to do is create a
4 > web-based website editor, similar to the one geocities.com offers. I
5 > need a way to store the website editor in a central location where it
6 > will be available to all users, but the users need to be able to save
7 > the files they create/edit in their own web space (in this case under
8 > ~/webspace/html). I want the users to be able to log in with their
9 > Linux usernames and passwords. I"ve written to a couple of PHP lists
10 > about this, but none of them have answered me. Is there anything in
11 > portage that will do this, so I don't have to write it myself? I've
12 > waded through a lot of descriptions of scripts other people have
13 > written, but none of them seemed to allow authenticating against the
14 > users and passwords already established on the system...
15
16 Someone on one of my PHP lists wrote back and told me that I needed to
17 make php with phpsuexec, but I don't see that as one of the USE flags.
18 Is it called something else in Gentoo?
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