I would say you should set up suexec to let the user that Apache runs as execute those specific commands as a privaleged user. But use suexec with EXTREME care.
Issac bo wrote: > Hello gurus, > > I am notivice on Apache configuration. > I wrote a CGI program, which will display > some system status on the client PC's browser window. > > This CGI program will execute a couple of system command > under /sbin with reading some system status from /proc. > > I have no problem to access or execute any file or binary under > /www/cgi-bin > but I have an access problem to other system directories like /sbin or > /proc. > > I followed the apache configuration document and I modified > <directory> and > created .htaccess file under /sbin but it did not help. > > How do I allow those files accessible from the CGI script? > > > Please help me out. > > Thanks in advance, > > Bo >