[olug] Running commands from web pages.

[Nathan D. Rotschafer]

Check out the fedora website docs section :-)

Thanks,
Nate

Wes Ferrel wrote:

> Yep, as you suspected, turning off SELinux got it to work.
> Not my favorite choice, but at least I know what's causing it so I can 
> see if I can't figure out how to enable the functionality I desire 
> without removing the security features of having SELinux enabled.
> Also, I may consider the perl traceroute option that Terry mentioned.
>
> Thanks for your collective help.
>
>     If anyone can shed a little more light on an easy way to modify 
> the SELinux config to allow execution of these progies by the apache 
> user, I'd be happy to listen. :)
>
>       Thanks again
>          Wes
>
> Phil Brutsche wrote:
>
>> Wes Ferrel wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Oh, I do have selinux enabled on this system, which may be a 
>>> contributing factor, for I admit not being very familiar with this.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Yeah, I figured.
>>
>> On my Debian systems traceroute is SUID root.
>>
>> SELinux is probably setup to prevent whatever user Apache runs as from
>> doing certain priviledged operations.
>>
>> I bet it'll work if you turn of SELinux ;)
>>
>>  
>>
>
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