Re: createing a mSQL database with a www cgi

At 4:43 PM  -0400 5/9/96, Jason T Vincent wrote:
>     Hey all,
>
>     I can create a database in MSQL by running  a perl cgi from the
>     command line, but once I try to run the cgi through netscape it does
>     not create the database.  My guess is that it is not being created
>     because the server thinks that user 'nobody' is trying to create the
>     database.  Is there a way to do this without creating a huge security
>     hole?

I'd recommend running your server as somebody.  Anytime you've got a server
that is going to be creating and/or modifying the system I think it's safer
to make it an actual user than make everything world-writable.  It's
certainly far more manageable.

Kee Hinckley      Utopia Inc. - Cyberspace Architects    617.768.5500
nazgul@utopia.com                               http://www.utopia.com/

I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.

Received on Friday, 10 May 1996 00:39:25 UTC