Re: MiniVend only as ROOT?

[mike@minivend.com]

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Quoting John-David Childs (jdc@nterprise.net):
> 
> Not true at all...thanks to suggestions from the list I was able to get
> minivend to run using cgiwrap under several different usernames (the "master"
> process is run as mvend or minivend, but individual user databases are run as
> the user via cgiwrap).

The main trick with CGIWRAP is to turn off the setuid bit on
the vlink/tlink executable with

	chmod 755 /home/you/cgi-bin/simple

or whatever the path is.

> I'll admit setting it up isn't for the faint of
> heart, tho :) 
> 

Did I claim it was? 8-)

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