From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FUOP7-0002km-NU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:32:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k3EDVrUQ030323; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:31:53 GMT Received: from bullet.espersunited.com (adsl-64-149-52-102.dsl.tul2ok.sbcglobal.net [64.149.52.102]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k3EDRTi3011148 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:27:30 GMT Received: from camille.espersunited.com ([192.168.1.1]) by bullet.espersunited.com (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3EDRSoh027543 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:27:29 -0500 Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Way OT - Can user apache become other users? From: Michael Sullivan To: gentoo-user In-Reply-To: <1144985369.6797.6.camel@camille.espersunited.com> References: <1144985369.6797.6.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:27:27 -0500 Message-Id: <1145021248.6797.13.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cc84b681-1022-400d-9757-7b02f1cda0b9 X-Archives-Hash: 7de4c81ff71d53ea566e63a980898aec On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 22:29 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > If the shell assigned to user 'apache' is "/bin/false", can user apache > become other users via su or sudo? What I want to do is create a > web-based website editor, similar to the one geocities.com offers. I > need a way to store the website editor in a central location where it > will be available to all users, but the users need to be able to save > the files they create/edit in their own web space (in this case under > ~/webspace/html). I want the users to be able to log in with their > Linux usernames and passwords. I"ve written to a couple of PHP lists > about this, but none of them have answered me. Is there anything in > portage that will do this, so I don't have to write it myself? I've > waded through a lot of descriptions of scripts other people have > written, but none of them seemed to allow authenticating against the > users and passwords already established on the system... Someone on one of my PHP lists wrote back and told me that I needed to make php with phpsuexec, but I don't see that as one of the USE flags. Is it called something else in Gentoo? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list