Re: [Sheflug] executing a program as a certain user from a CGI/perl script

[Andrew Basterfield <nospam [at] mailandnews.com>]

First thanks to everyone who replied for the info

At the moment pppd is run without authentication by httpd, but the link 
from the html form to the cgi script points to 
http://seamus.privnet/cgi-bin/progname - as the domain privnet is bogus, 
refering to 192.168.0.0/16 & exists only for the LAN anybody outside 
will get a DNS lookup failure when they click on the link. Not exactly 
watertight security but it'll do for the meanwhile. Been thinking about 
a cookie based authentication scheme - produce a special page to 
generate a cookie, give it to all the local machines then write a perl 
script that checks the cookie & updates the expiry date before doing the 
pppd stuff (plus I get to improve my perl).

thanks

A. Basterfield

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