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RE: UID for CGI program

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ronnie Thum)
Sat Nov 14 10:19:03 1998

Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 23:18:51 +0800 (MYT)
From: Ronnie Thum <cwthum@network2.cs.usm.my>
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If I run as nobody, can write files to the server ?
I need to write to the server, how can this be done ?

TIA

Rgds
Ronnie


On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Joel Arriaza wrote:

> There is a user "nobody",
> when you execute a cgi from the browser it
> is run with that uid.
> 
> ====================================
> Joel Arriaza
> SDNP - Guatemala
> United Nations Development Programme
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ronnie Thum [mailto:cwthum@network2.cs.usm.my]
> > Sent: Saturday, November 14, 1998 9:10
> > To: RedHat Mailing List
> > Subject: UID for CGI program
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > How can I know what uid does the server runs its CGI programs?
> > I can't seem to be able to write to a file on the server.
> > What's wwwuser ?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > rgds
> > Ronnie
> >
> >
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