in reply to Doing things as a different user

I like to use the suExec option of Apache httpd. That will take care of your problem, and permits better use of unix file system security.

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•Re^2: Doing things as a different user
by merlyn (Sage) on Sep 27, 2004 at 00:21 UTC
    I don't think that'll help here. From what I could gather, the specific user ID for each request will be different, based on some auth credentials. suExec makes a process that is always the user that owns the CGI script.

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