How about using "sudo" so that you can run a system command that can "su" up to the correct account and do it.
Alternatively, you can write a daemon that runs as root that you can connect to that can do this... On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 20:09, Nico Erfurth wrote: > John Stauffacher wrote: > > All, > > > > I've run into an interesting problem which I can't seem to figure out. > > Here it is: I have created a web form/perl script that sets up a users > > vacation file and .forward for them. Which works. The only problem is, I > > cannot write to their home directory (because Apache does not have > > rights to). The users *ARE* being authenticated via LDAP -- is there any > > way I can spawn a process with the ownership of the user to write to > > their directories within mod perl? > > The best way is to write in a temp-file and run a cronjob every 5 > minutes or so. > > ciao > > >
