Re: H e l p on httpd.conf

Based on what you are trying to do(you didn't tell us much), you are looking
for some stats on how the system is doing.  These programs need superuser
access to do what you want.  Apache runs under the user id of 'nobody' and
has limited system access.  This is done for a very good reason.  It's
called security.

To get around the security issue while providing the system stats, maybe run
these processes as a cron job and just make the output availible to Apache
to display for you.  This would allow you to get the information you need
without compromising security on your system.  And trust me, if you allow
'nobody' access to too much of your system, someone will find a way to break
in and take over your server.

Lyle

----- Original Message -----
From: "bo" <bo(at)sosnetwork.net>
To: <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 11:56 AM
Subject: H e l p on httpd.conf


> Apache gurus,
>
> I am notivice on Apache configuration.
> I wrote a CGI program in C, which will display
> some system status on the client PC's browser window.
>
> This CGI program will fork a child process to execute
> a shell script which will execute a couple of system command
> under /sbin with reading some system status from /proc.
>
> I have no problem to access or execute any file or binary under
/www/cgi-bin
> but I have an access problem to other system directories like /sbin or
> /proc.
>
> I followed the apache configuration document and I modified <directory>
and
> created .htaccess file under /sbin but it did not help. Also I could not
> create
> .htacces file under /proc.
>
> Please help me out.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bo
>
>

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