On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 22:59, Richard Gordon wrote:
> At 10:55 PM -0500 1/16/02, Ben Parker wrote:
> >If you manage to install Webware from FTP or SCP access only, you can always
> >use popen() from within a servlet to execute any command as if you were in a
> >shell.
> 
> That's interesting as I would have thought (and hoped) that you would 
> at least have to figure out a way to change to a privileged user id 
> before you could start issuing system commands. Don't servlets run as 
> user Nobody just like cgi?
> 

They run as whatever you start the AppServer as.  See: 

http://webware.colorstudy.net/twiki/bin/view/Webware/RunningWebwareAsUserWebware

for more.

  Ian



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