Hi, As most of us know, when you run a cgi script, you running as wwwrun or nobody. I was wondering if it was possible to somehow take the username and password thru a form, and su to the user thru a system (su user) and expect (maybe having to fork?). I have an outline of a script, but I'm stumped as how to proceed once I get the username and password. Is it possible to do this without a setuid script or using suexec? 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI 'cgi';
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

my $cgi= new CGI;
my %input= $cgi -> Vars();
$user= $input{'user'};
$pass= $input{'password'};
$action= $input{'action'};

my $username = getpwuid $<;

if ($action eq 'Click to Send'){
print "You were $username<br>";
#
##### stumped here ##################
#

print "You are now $username<br>";

}else{
print<<EOHTML;
<form action="http://localhost/~zentara/cgi-bin/su.cgi">
You are now $username<br><br>
<b>Name: </b>
<input type="text" name="user" size=30><br>
<b>Password: </b>
<input type="password" name="password" size=30><br>
<input type="submit" name="action" value="Click to Send">
</form>
EOHTML
}

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