I believe the article that merlyn is trying to remember appeared in the Summer 1998 issue of The Perl Journal. It was called Safely Empowering Your CGI Scripts but you'll need to be a subscriber to view it.

Subscriptions cost $18/year and can be obtained online, which isn't too bad, considering that many other journals want a lot more money. There is, apparently some risk that the magazine is on the rocks (see TPJ future in question), but subscriptions allow immediate access to their online archives). Given that $18 is less than half the price of many tech books, it's cheap access to a lot of useful and extremely educational material.

If you'd rather not risk the subscription, I notice that Mr. Stein has a package that may help available on his web site; here's the direct link.

--f

In reply to Re: Running a CGI Script as user by footpad
in thread Running a CGI Script as user by skazat

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.