starting daemons at server start

[Marty Landman]

At 07:23 PM 1/4/2004, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>I'm not an expert at Apache, exactly, but I can tell that you need to be 
>more specific about the changes you're making, and why, before anybody can 
>help you find a way to avoid doing that.

As I understand it, Apache provides a module called suexec to allow cgi's 
to run as the user that owns the directory. Without suexec cgi's run as the 
httpd owner which is typically a 'nobody' user with highly restricted 
permissions. So to allow e.g. mypgm.cgi default permission to write to a 
file in /mnt/web/guide/guido (user Guido's root) with a chmod of 644 Apache 
must be recompiled with suexec enabled. I failed at my attempt to do this 
and didn't want to keep plugging away so have just chmod'd my (local 
intranet) root directories to 777. It's a lousy kluge but it does permit me 
to keep working.

>A lot of workarounds tend to be just as much of a security concern as 
>suexec is itself.

Not sure security's an issue on my intranet, but inevitably working 
improperly will lead to improper results and security issues on the 
production server.

Marty Landman   Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387
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