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On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 13:19 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 08:27 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 22:29 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> > > If the shell assigned to user 'apache' is "/bin/false", can user apache |
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> > > become other users via su or sudo? What I want to do is create a |
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> > > web-based website editor, similar to the one geocities.com offers. I |
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> > > need a way to store the website editor in a central location where it |
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> > > will be available to all users, but the users need to be able to save |
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> > > the files they create/edit in their own web space (in this case under |
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> > > ~/webspace/html). I want the users to be able to log in with their |
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> > > Linux usernames and passwords. I"ve written to a couple of PHP lists |
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> > > about this, but none of them have answered me. Is there anything in |
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> > > portage that will do this, so I don't have to write it myself? I've |
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> > > waded through a lot of descriptions of scripts other people have |
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> > > written, but none of them seemed to allow authenticating against the |
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> > > users and passwords already established on the system... |
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> > Someone on one of my PHP lists wrote back and told me that I needed to |
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> > make php with phpsuexec, but I don't see that as one of the USE flags. |
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> > Is it called something else in Gentoo? |
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> I take it from the fact that no one has responded to this question that |
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> suexec is not possible in PHP on Gentoo. Is there some other language I |
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> can do this project in, such as perl or ruby, or anything freely |
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> available on Gentoo for that matter that would allow my users to use a |
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> web-based website editor and save the files to their own webspace? |
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I found www-apache/mod_suphp, which seems to be what I need. It has |
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several USE flags which I am unfamiliar with, such as mode-force, |
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mode-owner, mode-paranoid, etc. Is there a way that I could find out |
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what these flags mean? They are not |
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in /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc... |
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