[plug] cgi permissions

Steve Boak sboak at westnet.com.au
Tue Jun 29 16:15:45 WST 2004


On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 04:05 pm, Russell Steicke wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 03:58:40PM +0800, Steve Boak wrote:
> ...
>
> > I'm experimenting with a perl cgi script to allow a local web user to
> > force a redial on my modem by calling the 'pon' script, but I seem to
> > have a problem with permissions somwhere. To put it simply, I have a line
> > $result = `pon`;
> > in my script, which returns the message "Error: only members of the 'dip'
> > group can use this command".
>
> If you haven't restarted apache, its processes will still have the old
> group list.

That's it !!!!!

Thanks Russell, I knew it had to be something simple I was overlooking!

Steve

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