On 20.08.2016 23:59, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Aug 20, 2016, at 15:00, Walter H.<[email protected]>  wrote:

Hello,

how could it be achieved to run
e.g.
shutdown -h now
from a CGI script on a system where SELinux is set to ENFORCING?

Short answer: don't.   You could probably create a custom selinux policy that 
allowed it but you'd be opening your system up to more security issues.

If it were me, I'd have the cgi drop a file in a known location, and have an 
external process (possibly started through cron) monitor the file, then run 
shutdown conditionally.


I thought of such a mechanism; I also want to show some states which also need priviledged rights
e.g.  arp,  iptables -L -n -v, ...
but these are many write access to the disk, shutdown/restart just generate one write access by the CGI script and the cron job deletes this generated file and does the shutdown or restart

where is the "best" directory I could do this "communication"?
e.g. /var/lib/box?

Thanks,
Walter

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