On 11/11/05, Sven Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm setting up a hosting site with virtual domains, and to increase security
> I intend to run suexec'd php and cgi's.
>
> I'd also like to keep redundancy to a minimum; i.e. only one copy of php in
> /usr/lib/cgi-bin  . If I need to upgrade php, I'd like to do it in one
> place, not messing with users cgi-bin directories.
>
> Now, suexec requires that both the cgi (in this case php) and its directory
> is owned by the vhost owner/uid, otherwise it refuses to execute.
>
> So my question is, is there some way of having a "shared" cgi-bin where
> suexec does not care about the file owner, or perhaps accepts one uid (a
> "sharedcgi" user) as owner.
>
> Of course, the source can be modified, but the documentation strongly
> advices against this... so if there is some other solution, I'm all ears!

You may want to look into cgiwrap, which has a different set of
security rules.  suexec will not allow what you want.

Joshua.

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