Re: Permission conflict between mod_cgi and mod_perl

2002-03-25 Thread James Lum
Folks, 1st, I want to thank you all for your responses and clarifications about 'suid perl' and 'mod_perl' and the way they work together. It is kinda like I suspected. :( 2nd, I should have worded my real question a little differently. Basically, it is: How can I get perl code, invoked by

Re: Permission conflict between mod_cgi and mod_perl

2002-03-18 Thread James Lum
To change set the default /etc/skel files and to use useradd on linux, you need to run as root ... but the cgi code normally runs with the userid of the web server (nobody or www) and thus cannot successfully invoke the useradd command. To successfully invoke the useradd command, you could do