Sigh. I think I'm developing a definite love-hate thing
with perl. Here's the situation:
I have a program (that's going to be run either under
Apache::Registry or eventually transmuted into a mod_perl doohickey) that
needs, for part of it's life cycle, to do something _as_ a particular
user. Well, which user it is will change on a per-invocation basis
but that is doable via mod_rewrite and @ARGV or something.
I looked in the camel book and it recommended forking off a child
process and changing the UID et al. within the child process. The
child process then does whatever with it's lower, presumably safer
set of permissions and whatnot, with it's output going back to the
parent process. Problem is, a quick test script I wrote up to try this
doesn't work. ???
To recap:
1) script that's going to be run by nobody (i.e. Apache/perl)
2) needs to run at some point as (fill in user name here)
I thought about using (cgiwrap || suEXEC), but that has it's own
set of nasty headaches. Maybe there is some subtle Unix jujitsu I can
whip on it outside of the bounds of perl?
A six-pack of whatever your fav beer at HEB is to whoever
knows the answer to this bagbiter problem. Or something else if (you.age
< 21).
If you would like me to post the sample code I will. Thanks in
advance.
Mike
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