[ic] suid makecat

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 01:13:20PM +1030, Tim Stoakes wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:19:05 -0500
>  cfm@maine.com wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 12:34:56PM +1030, Tim Stoakes wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > We're implementing a browser driven interface to setting up interchange catalogs. One of the steps involved in this is the makecat of course. I have written a wrapper that is suid the interchange user, that checks parameters etc. for safety. However, makecat is called from here as suid aswell, and it is giving me a lot of errors due to the forced -T mechanism.
> > > 
> > > Has anyone got any solutions to this, other than me auditing makecat and making it -T safe?
> > > 
> > > Or is what we are trying to do a crazy idea?
> > 
> > reinventing cpanel? <LOL>
> 
> After hearing so many bad comments about CPanel we did not go down that road. This is just for internal use anyway, so that we can setup many catalogs quickly with inexperienced staff.


Just for internal use with inexperienced staff.

Stop.

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