[gentoo-user] Re: Way OT - Can user apache become other users?

[Michael Sullivan]

On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 08:27 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 22:29 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > If the shell assigned to user 'apache' is "/bin/false", can user apache
> > become other users via su or sudo?  What I want to do is create a
> > web-based website editor, similar to the one geocities.com offers.  I
> > need a way to store the website editor in a central location where it
> > will be available to all users, but the users need to be able to save
> > the files they create/edit in their own web space (in this case under
> > ~/webspace/html).  I want the users to be able to log in with their
> > Linux usernames and passwords.  I"ve written to a couple of PHP lists
> > about this, but none of them have answered me.  Is there anything in
> > portage that will do this, so I don't have to write it myself?  I've
> > waded through a lot of descriptions of scripts other people have
> > written, but none of them seemed to allow authenticating against the
> > users and passwords already established on the system...
>
> Someone on one of my PHP lists wrote back and told me that I needed to
> make php with phpsuexec, but I don't see that as one of the USE flags.
> Is it called something else in Gentoo?

I take it from the fact that no one has responded to this question that
suexec is not possible in PHP on Gentoo.  Is there some other language I
can do this project in, such as perl or ruby, or anything freely
available on Gentoo for that matter that would allow my users to use a
web-based website editor and save the files to their own webspace?

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