Automation of Administrative Tasks on an RHEL Box

[Marti, Robert]

sudo would work. 



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On Sep 16, 2010, at 1:03 PM, "Devarishi Kumar Mahadeva" <dk_mahadeva at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> 
> Here is a good scenario of  Automation of Administrative Tasks (it was presented 
> before me in an interview at a Defense Department, Navy):
> 
> Design a Web Interface using PHP (we can use Perl also)  that has fields for:
> 
> IP Address, Default Gateway, Subnet Mask, etc. and when the values are submitted 
> the Linux Server (RHEL) should be able to process the request and change the 
> Network information accordingly and restart the Network Services. (It it 
> noteworthy that such a Web Interface is to be used on an Intranet and is for 
> testing purpose only, we really do not intend to invite any security 
> vulnerabilities by allowing anyone to change the Network Settings.) 
> 
> The only point here is how to get a (CGI-)Script (PHP or Perl) be able to 
> perform the tasks of an Administrator, i.e. execute commands that only the root 
> user or a user with some root privileges can issue.
> 
> We can easily pass values to a PHP / Perl or even to a Shell Script program on 
> the server.... in /var/www/cgi-bin or /var/www/html directories. But how will it 
> run with the root privileges? 
> 
> With regards,
> 
> Devarishi Kumar Mahadeva.
> 
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