Anthony Ettinger wrote:
> Apache runs as an underprivileged user though. I'm
> assuming you want one cgi script where they enter
> their username and a vacation msg in a form from a web
> page.
>
> You would have to open up their ~/.forward files to be
> world writable (which would mean they could
> potentially change each others vacation messages).
>
> It might be possible to execute a command with 'sudo
> username' from your script, writing out the .forward
> file for a particular user, creating as only writable
> by that one user.
>
> What do you think? Any other ideas?
Some sort of login/user verification would obviously be
needed and the script would obviously have to be able to
then write to the file or interface to another task that
could.
> --- $Bill Luebkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>Michael Meltzer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>A user should change or create his vacation
>>
>>message text via perl cgi.
>>
>>>Does someone know about such a script ?
>>>How can the user edit/change text ?
>>>Where should I search/start ?
>>>
>>>We use apache, sendmail, procmail.
>>
>>If you have procmail set up to do your vacation msg,
>>you could just
>>modify ${HOME}/.vacation.msg by a simple open, write
>>and close in the
>>CGI script. You would need to have write access of
>>course. In some
>>cases, it would be in ${HOME}/.forward file instead
>>- depending on how
>>it's set up. File locking could also be a
>>consideration.
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