System command on FreeBSD...

[Chad McWilliams]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Bill Campbell
> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 1:55 PM
> To: filePro List
> Subject: Re: System command on FreeBSD...
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2004, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> >On Wed, Dec 29 12:16  Chad McWilliams said 'Who you talkin' to? You 
> >talkin'
> ...
> >
> This may well be a place where ``sudo'' is appropriate.  It 
> permits users to run specific commands as other users (not 
> necessarily root), and can be tailored to your needs.  The 
> sudo log file would show the id that attempted to use it 
> which would allow one to configure the sudoers file appropriately.
> 
> FilePro may be running external commands as the filepro user 
> or as the original user depending on how they handle the 
> internal fork, exec logic. This has always been one of the 
> things that makes life with filepro ``interesting''.  It was 
> what forced me to learn how perl's ``taint'' checking worked 
> because filepro print jobs which go through my ``lp'' front 
> end were triggering taintedness checks.
> 

Thanks for the heads up.  I'll look into using sudo and see if it helps.
I've never used it in the past, as I haven't had a big need to, so it
wasn't the first thing that popped into my head.

-Chad McWilliams