Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 00:24:17 +0100 From: Bjorn Eikeland <bjorn@eikeland.info> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: web based configuration as root or equivalent Message-ID: <opr3z3arb8omdbx5@localhost> In-Reply-To: <403E72C9.5010103@daleco.biz> References: <opr2ejvb1oomdbx5@localhost> <403E72C9.5010103@daleco.biz>
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På Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:27:21 -0600, skrev Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. <kdk@daleco.biz>: > Bjorn Eikeland wrote: > >> I'm wanting to make a web based configuration tool for my wireless >> routers >> (setting up freebsd boxes to make a outdoor wlan) - ofcourse I can use >> ssh >> and webmin, but the configuration should be made even easier for less >> technical users. >> >> I've read the how to use Webmin with apache, didnt quite folllow the >> procedure, but bear with me.. >> >> chown scripts to root (chown -R root:root /var/www/cp) >> chmod w/suid (chmod -R 755 /var/www/cp) >> >> add -U flag to perl line, what does this do? is there a php knob like >> this? > What is the "perl line"....? What does it do? PHP can certainly > do chmod and chown .... > find . -name "*.cgi" -o -name "*.pl" | perl perlpath.pl "/usr/bin/perl -U" - Its from the webmin docs, on how to run webmin through apache, it goes through the scrips and add -U to the #!/usr/bin/perl line in each script. Is something similar needed to achieve the same effect with php? (The goal is to have the php script execute with root privelegies) > >> chown the scripts back to www (chown -R www:www /var/www/cp) >> chmod rwx to www (chmod -R 700 /var/www/cp) >> >> or am I stuck with compiling apache with D_BIG_SECURITY_HOLE? >> >> thanks, >> Bjorn > > Your mailer, or some mailer between you and freebsd.org, > is one month off (in the past) ... some people may not see > your message for this reason... > Indeed it was - been a long day, cmos battery needs replacing and it seems it's easy to get the date wrong when someone flips your calandar over to january to look at last months joke... *sigh*
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