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Date:      Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:39:37 +0100
From:      Oliver Thuns <oliver.thuns@gmx.de>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za>, "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Root privileges without root
Message-ID:  <199808271343.GAA13308@hub.freebsd.org>

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>> Apache is root, which I don't really want to do. Is there any 
>> way for me to give my script root privileges just for the time
>> that it does pw? Or is there _any_ other way around this? 
>
>Make a suid binary that does whatever you want for that time, and make
>sure only the web server, and not any of your users, can execute it?

How can I make it? Is it possible to make perl/python/tcl/... suid?


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