Re: PHP writing to /etc

From: CountScubula (me_at_scantek.hotmail.com)
Date: 02/10/04

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Mike Bradley
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"Peter Simpson" <peter@tiverton.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hello everybody.
>
> I'm trying to set up a simple web interface to maintain the rules
> configuration for Shorewall.
>
> This entails writing to at least one of several root-owned files in
> /etc/shorewall.
>
> Can anyone, please explain how I allow a script to write to one of these
> files when apache is running as www-run.nobody (on debian stable) ?
>
> I appreciate that it's probably about permissions, but I should like to
> be able to minimise the risk of abuse because it is for a charity that I
> work for.
>
> Apache is set up to be visible internally only and I shall ensure that
> no-one can make it visible via the interface!!
>
> Thank you for any help that anyone can give.
>
> Regards,
> Pete
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