Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script.

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.