in reply to execute a program / cgi

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Re: Re: execute a program / cgi
by TheHobbit (Pilgrim) on Apr 17, 2002 at 22:18 UTC

    Moreover, in any sane set-up you can't. cgi scripts are run with the permission of user nobody... And this user definitively can't launch sshd, you must be root to do it.

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