set the UIDs and GIDs in Mod_Perl 2

[Shane De Jager <sd...@intergage.co.uk>]

Hi

I am in the process of moving to mod perl from CGI. Under modCGI i could set UIDs and GID with suExec. Is this possible with mod_perl2? If so, how is it done?

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Re: set the UIDs and GIDs in Mod_Perl 2

[Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>]

Shane De Jager wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am in the process of moving to mod perl from CGI. Under modCGI i could set UIDs and GID with suExec. Is this possible with mod_perl2? If so, how is it done?

Not at the moment, Shane.
http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/install.html#Is_it_possible_to_run_mod_perl_enabled_Apache_as_suExec_

This may change in the future if perchild or metux MPM will be released. 
This will allow to have groups of processes/threads running under a given 
uid/gid, which may or may not suit your needs (e.g. it probably won't 
scale well if you have hundreds of users you want to 'suexec' to).


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