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

On Fri, 23 May 2025 13:51:57 +0100, Pancho wrote:
 

On 5/23/25 13:26, 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.
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   Bookworm linux on a Pi4.
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Its all inside a domestic firewall so security is not a huge issue.
What is the quickest and simplest solution to this?
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Dunno, change script ownership to root and use setuid, sudo chmod u+s.
It used to work, nowadays who knows? It did used to provide security holes.

 FWIW, the Linux kernel does not honour the setuid bit when running hashbang
scripts.