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

In comp.os.linux.misc, The Natural Philosopher  <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

I have a shell script that monitors hardware stuff - it needs to run as
root and be called by Apache as user www.
 
  Bookworm linux on a Pi4.
 
Its all inside a domestic firewall so security is not a huge issue.
What is the quickest and simplest solution to this?

My "quickest and simplest solution":

$ su
Password:
# sed -i -e 's,^www:.*,www:x:0:0:Apache:/var/www:/usr/sbin/nologin,' /etc/passwd
# apachectl restart
# ^D
$

YMMV.

Elijah
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personally would run the script from cron and have Apache view results