Hello Kirk,

Thursday, November 14, 2002, 7:53:46 AM, you wrote:

KB> I have a problem. I am writing a script to create lists, and another to destroy
KB> them- that is, MAIL lists, such as mailman, majordomo, and mojomail and tinylist
KB> all work with. (I write TinyList.)

KB> The aliases file must have certain permissions, and it appears to be 644 in my
KB> freebsd box- hope that's correct, but it works fine. And the ownership is root,
KB> and that works fine.

KB> well, apache in the box is nobody:wheel and runs scripts as such. I have the
KB> scripts owned nobody:wheel also. They run, but it cannot access the aliases
KB> file-permissions/ownerships. OK, changed the relevant scripts' ownerships to
KB> root (gasp!) and tried to run things that way. still no luck. Scripts apparently
KB> are running as nobody, even though owned by root.

KB> OK, a few questions.

KB> First, how to I get a script to discover what identity it is running as?

id(1)
whoami(1)

KB> Second, how can I insure it runs as a particular identity(so as to be compatable
KB> with the email system), when run by the web server?

apache has some feature called `suexec'. I think it can help you.
Search the apache manual.

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