Freeside installation problem

[Ivan Kohler]

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On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, News Subsystem wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Ivan Kohler wrote:
>
> > You may also want to take a look at the suExec feature of Apache, which
> > appears to provide similar functionality - it executes scripts as the
> > owner of the script (thus the setuid bit would not be needed).  I haven't
> > tried this myself.
> > 
> I believe that it is necessary to have apache running as root in order to 
> use the suExec feature.  This is a major security problem, much worse 
> that setting the suid bit on a users files.

The documentation (specificly suexec.html from the manual) seems to
indicate that the suexec wrapper itself is setuid root, but that apache
does not run as root.  I would guess that given Apache's popularity (and
wide distribution of source code :) ), a correctly installed suexec should
be fairly safe.

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