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

On 2025-05-23, 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.
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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?

I have a vague memory of an "shc" package which describes itself
as a shell script compiler.  In reality it isn't but its does
package up the script in a directly executable format (i.e. ELF)
and pass it to the shell at runtime.  That would allow a SetUID
flag to work.  Seems to be listed as a Debian package but I haven't
used it in decades.

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