Topic: Elevating Permissions

[tomt]

My current web user is restricted to only be able to edit, move and delete files in specific locations.

On occasions we need to have this user to be able to move files from root and other folders.

Is there anyway we can elevate the permissions the user / web script has ?

or could we create a folder and any scripts placed in their are automatically given elevated permissions ?

This is on a closed fixed device running apache and not a public network / webserver.

Thanks

[James Blond]

For a single file you could do

[code]
<Files "yourscript.cgi">
Options ExecCGI
</Files>

if that is enough

[tomt]

Thanks for the reply

I've got around a dozen files I'd like to run.

There all php scripts that need to be able to move, copy, edit and delete pretty much anywhere on the system.

The normal web user doesn't have these rights.

Hopefully this is possible !

Thanks

[James Blond]

It is possible if the user apache runs with has the permission. On *nix based systems you can set the user and the group apache shall run with

[tomt]

Thanks.
The normal user Apache runs with doesn't have the permissions.

Is it possible to elevate the permissions for specific scripts or a folder full of scripts ?

But leave the Apache user as normal for all other files ?

[James Blond]