Re: cgiwrap for Apache::ASP?

2000-04-17 Thread Joshua Chamas
Theoretically, you could run Apache::ASP scripts as a CGI program, which could then inherit the suexec environment for execution, creating $Session such as that suexec user. Problem is that I have never gotten ASP to run as a full CGI well. Check out the asp script in the distribution cgi

Re: cgiwrap for Apache::ASP?

2000-04-16 Thread Philip Mak
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Ime Smits wrote: | I also have ASP installed, and I'd like to be able to transparently suid | the .asp scripts too. Do you know how I could go about doing this? I think this is a general bad idea. The only purpose of running scripts via a suexec or setuid mechanism I

Re: cgiwrap for Apache::ASP?

2000-04-16 Thread Tom Brown
Also, my system has cgiexec (does suid for CGI scripts) installed. The cgiexec documentation says that once cgiexec is installed, it is a security risk if people can execute code as "nobody" since that user has special access to the cgiexec code. Right now, anyone can execute code as nobody

Re: cgiwrap for Apache::ASP?

2000-04-16 Thread Ime Smits
| Also, my system has cgiexec (does suid for CGI scripts) installed. The | cgiexec documentation says that once cgiexec is installed, it is a | security risk if people can execute code as "nobody" since that user has | special access to the cgiexec code. Right now, anyone can execute code as |

Re: cgiwrap for Apache::ASP?

2000-04-16 Thread Tom Brown
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Ime Smits wrote: | Also, my system has cgiexec (does suid for CGI scripts) installed. The | cgiexec documentation says that once cgiexec is installed, it is a | security risk if people can execute code as "nobody" since that user has | special access to the cgiexec code.

Re: cgiwrap for Apache::ASP?

2000-04-16 Thread Ime Smits
| Huh? SuEXEC only works with mod_cgi (e.g. it requires the exec() part of | it's name to get the Su part), it is not applicable to the persistant | mod_perl world. Ok, I must admit I mixed up referals to the concept (setuid()) and the imlementation (suexec). The point I was making was that

cgiwrap for Apache::ASP?

2000-04-14 Thread Philip Mak
Hello, I searched the egroups.com mod_perl archive for "cgiwrap" and didn't find anything relevant to ASP. I'm wondering if there's any documentation about how to use cgiwrap with the ASP extension. Currently I have a modified version of cgiwrap installed on my system such that all .cgi/.pl

Re: cgiwrap for Apache::ASP?

2000-04-14 Thread Ime Smits
| I also have ASP installed, and I'd like to be able to transparently suid | the .asp scripts too. Do you know how I could go about doing this? I think this is a general bad idea. The only purpose of running scripts via a suexec or setuid mechanism I can think of is to stop different users