Are you sure that cdrecord needs to run as root? You might check into
changin permissions on the device itself. Or if this is a trusted
machine/environment (I assume it is, 'cause most people don't write web apps
to burn CDs), then you could suid cdrecord itself as root. Be sure you
understand the security implications of doing that.
Paul
10:08am, Gavin Henry wrote:
Dear all,
I have a working cgi script, well from the commandline.
I haven't enabled -T, but that will be next.
I am using $|++ and CGI::Carp to get things to stdout etc. and show me
errors.
All the script does is creates an ISO file, writes a log and burns the CD
with some Javascript quesions to ask if the user wants to continue.
I could paste the code, but I don't think it's relevant to my question.
What the problem is, is that the ISO and log file are to be saved in non
apache2 owned directories and cdrecord needs to be run as root.
I have tried changing the group ownership of these dirs and chmod 775 for
them, but apache2 still can't write to them.
I have looked into suexec, but I am not running VirtualHosts and I have
tried just making the scripts setuid, but apache2 won't run them then.
I have seen suidperl, but I am not sure what it does.
Basically I have tried everything I know at present, read all the perlfaq9
and relevant CGI FAQ etc.
Does someone with more experience have any tips, as I am now at a loss.
Thanks.
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