nonlin wrote:
>  Dear Friends,
>   
>  I know this is not directly a Unix problem but since this is happening 
>  in Fedora Lenix I though your the best group to help me with this Issue.
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>  I need to execute some root level UNIX commands and access some root 
>  level files from an script that is executed from the web. To be more 
>  specific, the script I am writing needs to restart sendmail. Example 
>  of "restartemail.pl":
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>  #!/usr/bin/perl --
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>  use CGI ':standard';
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>  @results = `service sendmail restart`;
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>  print "@results\n";
>  ------------
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>  If I am login in as the root on the server and run this script, IT 
>  WORKS perfectly!
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>  But if I call this script over the web into a browser. It FAILS! 
>  because 550 Permission denied (real uid not trusted).
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>  Now, I know that this limitation was set up for my protection, but I 
>  am writing a script that don't let the user do what ever they want. 
>  The script is in full control of what is happing on the server and not 
>  the user, so their is really no real risk hear. I just need to get 
>  around this limitation to get the job dun.
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>  Does anyone know how to make this work.
>   
>  Sincerely,
>   
>  Nonlin.
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Nolin,

Do you have sudo setup on the box?


Phillip
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