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Holy Security Hole Batman!

by blue_cowdawg (Monsignor)
on Aug 21, 2014 at 16:22 UTC ( #1098243=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to How to execute a shell command from a CGI script

I am having severe ogita about that bit of code. You have created a security hole I could drive a truck through. Running sudo from a CGI script is a bad bad idea. Think of a way of doing this without the sudo.


Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; Blog: http://blog.berghold.net Warning: No political correctness allowed.

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