Giving Apache sudo access
Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO
brian.kelsay at kcc.usda.gov
Wed Mar 21 09:11:31 CDT 2007
Like all things Linux, there are at least three ways to do everything.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jared
>Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 11:36 PM
>
>>>> Ouch! It requires recompiling Apache.
>>
>>> Are you sure it requires recompiling? On most distros it
>should be a
>>> default module. In Debian I found it precompiled at:
>>> /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_suexec.so
>>
>> Apache's docs are distro-agnostic and harken back to the days when
>> every howto told you how to patch and recompile the kernel. (Those
>> things persisted long after the modular kernel made it unnecessary.)
>
>Aha! The plot thickens. Thank you, Jonathan. Indeed, I read
>the Apache docs and bailed on the idea because they mentioned
>recompiling. In fact, the module exists, at the same location
>you described, on a Gentoo box.
>
>I think I can tinker with Kyle's proposal after all, as it
>appears that mod_suexec is ubiquitous.
>
>Thank you, all who responded. I learned a lot, and now have
>three valid solutions to the problem.
>
>-Jared
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