[Gllug] Apache access to root-owned files

[Jason Clifford]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, John G Walker wrote:

> > sudo calling a single command to effect the necessary change?
> > 
> > That way you can configure sudo to only allow that specific command
> > to be used with root privileges.
> 
> But wouldn't that still involve users having to know and use the root
> password?

No. You can configure sudo to allow use without a password and sudo never 
needs the root password anyway - it uses the users password if you are 
using passwords.

A command like this should work:

apache       ALL =   NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/command-to-run

Jason
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