Re: Permission to enable CGI Scripts to do an I/O on the file system

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Subject: Re: Permission to enable CGI Scripts to do an I/O on the file system
From: Marat Khalili <mkh@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 08:59:29 +0300
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You didn't specify system, so I assume it's a standard Linux installation. CGI scripts by default run with permissions of the web server, which are intentionally limited. However, you can create new files and directories in /tmp, possibly using tempfile module. If you want more than just a temporary file then you should consider using database since writing arbitrary files from CGI scripts would otherwise cause concurrency and security problems.

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With Best Regards,
Marat Khalili

On 11/08/17 00:29, Kiorp Pilu wrote:

Hello,

I have written a python script that will spit out a log file. This python script will be executed as a CGI script.

I am able to run the python program, but not able to make it write to an output file. How can I enable Apache web server to do so ?

Thanks,

Dann

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