From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jan 22 19:37:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.numachi.com (numachi.numachi.com [198.175.254.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9532F37B404 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 19:37:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 27866 invoked by uid 3001); 23 Jan 2002 03:37:20 -0000 Received: from natto.numachi.com (198.175.254.216) by numachi.numachi.com with SMTP; 23 Jan 2002 03:37:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 41881 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Jan 2002 03:37:20 -0000 Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 22:37:20 -0500 From: Brian Reichert To: Buliwyf McGraw Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Creating users from the web Message-ID: <20020122223720.O2872@numachi.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from buliwyf@libertad.univalle.edu.co on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 09:39:53PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 09:39:53PM -0500, Buliwyf McGraw wrote: > > Hello, i want to build a system to create users from a web interface. > I tried to use the su_exec function of apache but it doesn't support > run programs "as root" or execute setuid programs. > I really need that the system work by the web... i know that it could > be insecure, but anyway, i have to do it. Write a suid wrapper. Not a FreeBSD security issue, I think. Or, use 'sudo'. > Any sugestions? > Thanks for any help. > > ======================================================================= > Buliwyf McGraw > Administrador del Servidor Libertad > Centro de Servicios de Informacion > Universidad del Valle > ======================================================================= -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message