----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Secure Web-Based Administration
> What are some ways that I can execute certain administrative > commands (such as ifconfig,iwconfig,route,scripts in my /etc/init.d/ > directory, etc...) as root? You can enable suexec on your webserver (if you are using apache, http://httpd.apache.org/docs/suexec.html, which can execute CGI programs as different users (still not root though). You may have to use PHP as an external CGI interpreter instead of a module in order to get it to work with suexec.), and then, using sudo (you can edit the sudo configuration file with visudo) give access to a user to the commands that you wish to execute as root. To execute the scripts as the superuser, you use the /usr/bin/sudo <command name> Check out the man pages (sudo(8) and sudoers(5)). -Ben La Monica CylindriNet Incorporated
