Root sudo? (was Re: Cron Job Failure)

[Mike Burger]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Mike Burger wrote:

>>> Realizing, up front, that this doesn't answer your question, I do have
>>> ask...why would you bother using sudo as root?  The whole point of sudo is
>>> to be able to run commands as root...if you're already root, why would you
>>> need to use sudo?
>>> 
>>> 
>> I'm not using sudo with root. The problem is that the php script forks a 
>> process using sudo.
>> Such as the php script:
>> <?
>> 
>>> exec("sudo /usr/local/bin/setpassword $uid $pass");
>> 
>> ?>
>> 
>> Thanks any way.
>
> Seems to me, then, that you should have "apache" as the user in the sudoers 
> file, now root...httpd, and by extension, PHP, run as user apache.

Bleah...that should have read "not root...".  Sorry.
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