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Hi,

Your C program must run as root with suid bit set (make a safe code!).

Bye


Nathan Bird wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to write a web page script in C which is to take a username and
> password from a HTML form and process it in the C code.
> The code then has to create a public_html directory under the users home
> directory ( specified by the username ) and then creates an index.html file.
> 
> The part I am getting stuck on is I have to set the directory and files to
> the correct user and groups. ( ie the username entered in the HTML form ), I
> know the command setuid, setgid and getuid, and getgid exist however they
> only allow you to set it to the value of the person calling the process
> which is NOBODY. As nobody is the value always used when a process is called
> from a Web Page.
> 
> Does anyone know how to take the value in the string/char array "username"
> and run the chown() command and pass it the "username" rather then the id of
> the process caller.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Nathan
> nathanb@hunterlink.net.au

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