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Subject: Re: how to get lynx to run as user nobody via Apache & PHP From: Robert Soros <robert@soros.ath.cx> Date: 21 Aug 2000 06:38:23 +0500 pete wrote: > Is there a way to use lynx as the user nobody. Or is this a bad idea ? > > I need to convert a URL (php'ed) to ASCII, and tried to run lynx from > within a PHP script. Since Apache runs as the user nobody. I've > found that lynx tries to create temp files that can't be opened. One thing you could do is chown the lynx binary to nobody chown nobody:nobody /usr/bin/lynx then setuid the bin, chmod +s /usr/bin/lynx this will cause lynx to run as user 'nobody' regardless of who starts it.. === Subject: Re: how to get lynx to run as user nobody via Apache & PHP From: Bret Hughes <bhughes@elevating.com> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 22:14:20 -0500 Pete Lancashire wrote: > Is there a way to use lynx as the user nobody. Or is this a bad idea ? > > I need to convert a URL (php'ed) to ASCII, and tried to run lynx from > within a PHP script. Since Apache runs as the user nobody. I've > found that lynx tries to create temp files that can't be opened. > > Any suggestions ? you could use sudo -u username lynx url create a dummy user and away you go. ===