Never do that. As far as possible try to avoid using suid scripts on web servers, and that too never for changing system parameters. A better solution is to call sudo from your script. You can configure the /etc/sudoers file like this -

Host_Alias MYSERVER = <servername> Cmnd_Alias CHANGE_IF = /sbin/ifup

# User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL) ALL apache MYSERVER= NOPASSWD: CHANGE_IF

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Use something like this in perl - $return = system("sudo","/sbin/ifup","eth1");

Nilesh.

--- Amish Mehta amish@ownmail.com wrote:

Why dont u write small cgi-script with setuid bit set?, that acts as wrapper and runs command passed through a cgi-variable. You might as well want to make it a open source project.

You can use htaccess for authentication OR write your own authentication code by way of cookies or cgi-variables.

Amish.

P.S. Make sure you dont leave any security hole in script.

sachin rase wrote:

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but i want to execute through apache is there any way to execute this way

ATTACHMENT part 2 application/octet-stream name=anonymous

ATTACHMENT part 3 application/octet-stream name=anonymous

ATTACHMENT part 4 application/octet-stream name=anonymous

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