On Friday 26 November 2010 18:15:22 Victor Churchill wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have been asked to make a Perl script that does some stuff with Apache's
> config (adds a virtual host) and then does an apache2ctl graceful to tell
> Apache to re-read its config files.
> This is Ubuntu 10.04, Apache 2.2. The script does its thing with the files
> (it runs as the www-data userID, and the files belong to www-data, so
> that's OK). But it can't do the apache2ctl command. Although the running
> apache processes are owned by www-data, the startup of apache is done as
> root to bind a socket to address :80 AIUI.
>
> It would be daft to make www-data a sudoer and I'm not sure how I would do
> that anyway. Any ideas on how to achieve this, or alternatives?
>
> thanks
Can you ask for a password then su to root? Or perhaps store a password hash?
Tim B.
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