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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script.
Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 20:44:58 +0100
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On 26/05/2025 18:24, Dominik Ałaszewski wrote:
> Dnia 23.05.2025 The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> napisał/a:
>> I have a shell script that monitors hardware stuff - it needs to run as
>> root and be called by Apache as user www.
> 
> One can consider communicating via files. Apache writes a file
> in a certain location (perhaps with the arguments for the script),
> script run (as root) is then triggered via inotify mechanism (one can utilise i.e. incron),
> the results are written to another file, readable by Apache.
> 
Why make stuff more complicated than it has to be?

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