Orpheus — Thu, 09 Mar 2000 03:13:00 +0000

I did the same thing a few months ago.

I have an old 486 in my basement i put it on. Still having trouble with X though. But I could live in the shell if I had to.When you get it up post a message here. I'd like to see it.

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Rob Pengelly — Thu, 09 Mar 2000 01:09:00 +0000

I don't really have one as of yet, I am just starting to play around with linux and apache on an old computer (which doesn't have internet access yet) to get the hang of things.

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Orpheus — Wed, 08 Mar 2000 23:15:00 +0000

Where is your web site Robp?

roBofh — Wed, 01 Mar 2000 23:19:00 +0000

The thing you most want to be careful with here is security. if you're not careful, your machine will get compromised. with red hat, there is the 'adduser' command, which you could use if you were running privelaged. OTOH, you could fudge around with permissions and groups, so that /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, and whatever other files, are all writeable by whatever group you set the cgi to run as. A much better alternative, IMHO, is to setup a system where your script adds the entries into a queue that you can easily check over for problems, and approve those as root or a priveleged user.