Automation of Administrative Tasks on an RHEL Box
Elliott, Andrew
Andrew.Elliott at istat.ca
Thu Sep 16 18:26:42 UTC 2010
You could also do it with an SUID or GUID....
But that's dependent on a few scenarios...
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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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