Re: Executing a program as another user

You wouldn't have a problem if you just ran your perl program as the other user surely?

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Re: Re: Executing a program as another user by nomis80 (Sexton) on Feb 14, 2002 at 04:00 UTC
The initial script is a CGI script and is therefore run as apache.apache.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Executing a program as another user by vek (Prior) on Feb 14, 2002 at 05:07 UTC
Ok now I get it. You didn't mention that you were referring to a CGI script. You're right, you shouldn't run any other programs as apache.apache for security reasons.	[reply]