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  • From: Mathieu Petit-Clair <address@concealed>
  • To: Olivier Salaün <address@concealed>
  • Cc: Mark K <address@concealed>, address@concealed
  • Subject: Re: [sympa-users] sudo wrapper
  • Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:36:41 +0900


Does that mean that it will be possible to use it with selinux enabled
under system like CentOS?

Mathieu

Olivier Salaün wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> The standard way to run wwsympa.fcgi is to use FastCGI ; it allows to
> run persistent CGI processes, see
> https://www.sympa.org/wiki/manual/web-interface#using_fastcgi. Therefore
> there is no such drawback for using a perl wrapper.
>
> However, in next 5.4 we've change the way wwsympa.fcgi and
> sympa_soap_server.fcgi run as the 'sympa' uid. We're now using a C
> wrapper, provided by Marcin Deranek. This new solution has the
> advantages of not requiring suidperl and also not requiring any sudo
> configuration for the server administrator.
>
> Mark K a écrit :
>> Just wondering why the wwsympa_sudo_wrapper is in perl instead of a
>> binary like the other wrappers? When using sudo, this means that each
>> web access fires up a perl interpreter twice.
>>
>




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