Re: can perl with sudo be 'secure enough'?

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This should be safe. It sounds like you are only trusting apache to run these scripts as root.

I don't know what you are trying to do, but you might not need to be root. Look into setting up a user with groups to run these scripts as a user other than root.

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Re^2: can perl with sudo be 'secure enough'? by buckaduck (Chaplain) on May 17, 2005 at 23:42 UTC
I wrote this node a long time ago (anonymously), where I gave a little more detail about how to set up security like this using groups. buckaduck	[reply]

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