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[Faber Fedor]

On 27/02/05 21:59 -0600, csnyder wrote:
> I don't like any of those options.

Neither do I, which is why I asked. :-)

> Are you sure it isn't possible to set this up in such a way that either:
> 
> 1) cron can run the necessary commands as root, and you scripts just
> pick up the data from a neutral location

No can do.  See my email to Hans.

> or 
> 
> 2) you write a daemon using PHP that runs as root, and listens to a
> some port or file for a "go" command, runs the commands, and then
> returns the results

Hmmmm, a daemon. There's an idea I like.  But why would I write a daemon
in PHP?  Sure, I *could* do a daemon in PHP, but I _could_ do it in bash
as well.  Perl or even Python would seem a better language, IMO.

> Either of those seems preferable to giving the webserver any kind of
> escalated privileges.

I agree. Now, to figure out how to do it...

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Faber                     

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