Re: Apache suexec

From: Pavel Kankovsky (peakat_private)
Date: Fri Oct 26 2001 - 04:33:16 PDT

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    On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote:
    
    >  Suppose we have mingid==100 and a user with gid==0 which belongs to groups 
    > 123,234,345. Suexec will no execute and script for this user.
    > 
    >  Now suppose we have the same user with gid==123 which belongs to groups0 
    > ,234,345. Suexec will execute any cgi without problem. The running cgi will 
    > be a member of all those groups.
    
    suexec does not check supplementary groups. It could do it but I do not
    think it is a serious problem--the motivation behind the checks is to
    avoid accidental invocation of CGI programs running under root or other
    special accounts.
    
    --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
    "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
    



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