RE: [cobalt-users] [RaQ4] Running a CGI as a UserName not httpd

["William J.A. Brillinger" <billy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:46 PM 29/07/02 -0400, you wrote:
> > One of my clients is having trouble getting his CGI to work
> > properly... it
> > seems that because the cgi is running as httpd it cannot read
> > the data
> > files as they are owned by user:site#
>
> If the user uploaded the CGI via FTP as that username, it should run as
> that user. (I even had a small problem of a script that sent mail
> sending the mail as user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx instead of the
> Return-path: specified in the script).
>
> If it's a FrontPage site, if they turn the CGI-BIN locally into a
> subweb, then when they publish the main web only, the CGI-BIN shouldn't
> be touched.

Is it CGI-Wrap that forces the script to run under the user and not httpd?

if so... would this line in my httpd.conf effectively disable cgi-wrap?

        ScriptAlias /cgi/ /home/sites/site2/www/cgi/

This site has a *lot* of scripts that are named without the .cgi extention 
thus to get them running, we enabled execution of anything in the cgi 
directory.

Assuming I am on the right track, how can I enable cgi-wrap for files in 
this directory?

Thanks!
- Bill






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