Re: [cgiwrap-users] 'with rewrite' option

[Mark M. <mar...@um...>]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Joe Hourcle wrote:

> 	--with-rewrite=FILE
> 	       use a file to rewrite user directories
>
> Unfortunately, I can't seem to find documentation on what the format of
> this file is.  Can someone point me in the right direction?

The format of the file is lines of the form:

username:relative/path/to/cgi-bin/directory/from/home/directory

Documentation begins on line 1149 of the file util.c :)


> [I mean, hell, I ideally, I'd love to be able to tell it to completely
> ignore the password file, and use something else, but without breaking
> digging through the code, I'm going to assume that it's just using
> standard system calls, [which doesn't necessarily use the standard
> password file, of course]]

Well, digging through the code, on line 90 of cgiwrap.c we have:

        /* Now, get whatever information that is available about that */
        /* user - fetch this information from the passwd file or NIS */
        if ( !(user = getpwnam(userStr)) )
        {
                MSG_Error_NoSuchUser(userStr);
        }

So you don't need a /etc/passwd file as long as your getpwnam()
function in the standard library knows where to get user information.
In other words, your assumption appears to be a valid one.

By the way, many thanks to Nathan for a great program!  I think it
is much better than suEXEC.

                Mark Montague
                LS&A Information Technology
                The University of Michigan
                mar...@um...