Hello, Any thoughts on the topic below please ? Apache dev-team, Eric, Rainer... ? :) Many thanks ! Best regards, Ben > On 17 apr. 2016 at 00:00, Ben RUBSON : > > Hello, > > When Apache is started from root user (as all services are), even if it then switches to the configured user:group, the rewritemap programs run under root user. > I use this "trick" under some circumstances to run some tasks under other identities from a rewritemap program.pl : > system("su - otheruser -c '/run/this/task -now'"); > > I was thinking about migrating this rewritemap program part to a more elegant module solution. > > However, when module is used, Apache has switched to configured user:group, I then think I will not be able to run commands as root from a module. > > Then my question is, could it be possible ? > I could use sudo, but perhaps there's a more elegant built-in solution. > > Thank you very much ! > > Best regards, > > Ben --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx