[cgiwrap-users] will cgiwrap help me achieve the following:-

[Mark W. <cg...@wi...>]

Hi, I am new to administrating cgiwrap, please be patient.

I have a script that writes out files to certain users accounts and then
does chmod and chown commands to set the write permissions.

The program runs fine when executed from the command line as root but
when called via a web server it dies trying to write out the first file.

Our web server is Apache/1.3.12 running on FreeBSD 3.4

When I installed cgiwrap the 4 binary's were installed to:-
/usr/local/www/cgi-bin/

so I copied them to the users cgi-bin, the users name is hinwick and the
path is /usr/www/hinwick/cgi-bin

so in /usr/www/hinwick/cgi-bin/ I have cgiwrap with it's permissions set
as u=rws g=rx o=rx and the actual script called mkdocs.pl with
permissions 755 and owner hinwick.admin (group admin since the users who
will be allowed to run this script are all part of admin group).

I run the script via a url on a protected (by apaches htaccess things)
html page, the url being:-

http://www.hinwick.co.uk/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/hinwick/mkdocs.pl

Only this reports back No script dir

Ofcourse the script runs as http://www.hinwick.co.uk/cgi-bin/mkdocs.pl
but just doesn't write out the files as it doesn't have permission.

But will cgiwrap allow my script to write out to 10 different users
accounts a file, doing a chown <user>.admin <filename> and then a 
chmod u=rw,g=rw,o=r <filename>?

M.

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