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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject: Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script.
Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 23:11:39 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 23 May 2025 13:26:34 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> I have a shell script that monitors hardware stuff - it needs to run as
> root and be called by Apache as user www.

You could have it running all the time and accepting requests to do things 
via a socket interface that you can connect to from a web-based frontend.

Alternatively, it can be running its own mini HTTP server, either directly 
exposed on a public port or accessed via a server-side proxy (what they 
insist on calling a “reverse proxy”) from Apache/Nginx.

Either way, this would likely be awkward to implement as a shell script. I 
would recommend using Python instead.