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Hmmm. But if I am another user on this box, I can set up a cgi script to update this data, because my cgi script is also run by the server as nobody. Yes?

If you have root access or a friendly sysadmin, ask them to install cgiwrap. Then you can run scripts as yourself, and set datafile permissions to 600. The cobalt RaQ servers come with cgiwrap seamlessly installed (not a plug, have had both good and bad experiences with these).

Alternatively, you can set the effective uid of the script with chmod u+s (I'm sure there are tutorials - I'm a little fuzzy on this as I use cgiwrap). Or write a C wrapper for the script and suid that (more robust for scripts that use system or backticks I think - but again, I'm not sure about this either, so look around).

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cLive ;-)

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