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Wow, that things have to be this complicated! :D But i finally got to where I wanted to be.

The work did a little option "-H" when running the command. This option specifies to set the home...

Thought it would be some groups problem, since the sudoers manpage I read online said something about specifying a group when performing sudo. Turns out this seems to be an old version and this...

Well, I would exclude a syntax error, since in the sudoers file is the following example:

I first tried to add this line to just make the www-data user free of anything:

After that didn't work,...

That's the capture of me logging in to www-data and performing a sudo command:
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...

Ok, seems like now the problem shifted a bit. After trying sudo from within perl, the auth-logfile showed this line:
So from root i su'ed to ww-data and tried entering the command directly from...

Thanks for the hint. Sounded like the right way, tried it by adding

to /etc/sudoers. Still the same log entry...

Gave that a shot too, but the manpage of sudo says the following:

So perl just grabs the output of sudo:

Unfortunately www-data has no password, since it is not intended to be used as a system...

Hi guys,
got a problem with a perl cgi script over here. I need it to run a system command to get the status of a process. Unfortunately the process is owned by a specific user and only this user...