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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Run system command in perl cgi Post 302299215 by polki on Thursday 19th of March 2009 01:06:52 PM
Old 03-19-2009
That's the capture of me logging in to www-data and performing a sudo command:
Quote:
Debian:~# su www-data
Debian:/root$ sudo -u vboxuser '/usr/bin/VBoxManage showvminfo pfsense' | grep '^State:'

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.

[sudo] password for www-data:
That's where the story ends. I never gave a password to www-data, so I don't know what to enter. I also edited /etc/sudoers the way I posted earlier which should keep www-data away from any password hassle, but nothing works as expected...
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

cgi_output

cgi_output(3)							     cgi/cgi.h							     cgi_output(3)

NAME

       cgi_output  - display the CGI output to the user

SYNOPSIS

       #include <cgi/cgi.h>

       NEOERR *cgi_output (CGI *cgi, STRING *output);

ARGUMENTS

       cgi - a pointer a CGI struct allocated with cgi_init
       output - the data to send to output from the CGI

DESCRIPTION

       Normally, this is called by cgi_display, but some people wanted it external so they could call it directly.

RETURN VALUE

       None

SEE ALSO

       cgi_debug_init(3),  cgi_parse(3),  cgi_destroy(3),  cgi_js_escape(3),  cgi_html_escape_strfunc(3), cgi_register_strfuncs(3), cgi_output(3),
       parse_rfc2388(3), cgi_url_validate(3), open_upload(3), cgi_cs_init(3), cgi_url_escape_more(3), cgi_html_strip_strfunc(3), cgi_neo_error(3),
       cgi_redirect(3),  cgi_filehandle(3),  cgi_register_parse_cb(3),	cgi_url_escape(3),  cgi_init(3), cgi_redirect_uri(3), cgi_cookie_clear(3),
       cgi_url_unescape(3), cgi_vredirect(3), cgi_display(3),  cgi_html_ws_strip(3),  cgi_error(3),  cgi_cookie_set(3),  cgi_text_html_strfunc(3),
       cgi_cookie_authority

ClearSilver							   12 July 2007 						     cgi_output(3)
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