Hi,

Jimmy Schappet wrote on Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 09:07:24AM -0600:

>  The part you missed in Bill's email "Write a shell script that is  
>  setuid root" is the most important.

Except that telling users who don't know what suid means
to write suid root shell scripts (doubtful advice at best
even when given to experienced system programmers) is a
recipe for disaster security-wise.

Do not even consider writing system administration web frontends
unless you know in great detail and depth what you are doing.

When you do not know what you are doing, you achieve the same by
setting up SSH root access and providing the password on the web
site, with much less effort.

Yours,
  Ingo
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