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  • Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script.

    From Michael Schwingen@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Thu May 29 09:04:29 2025
    On 2025-05-23, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    I have a shell script that monitors hardware stuff - it needs to run as
    root and be called by Apache as user www.

    Bookworm linux on a Pi4.

    https://github.com/OliveTin/OliveTin

    might be worth a look. I only had a short look and have no own experience
    yet.

    cu
    Michael
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  • From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to Michael Schwingen on Thu May 29 12:20:25 2025
    On 29/05/2025 10:04, Michael Schwingen wrote:
    On 2025-05-23, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    I have a shell script that monitors hardware stuff - it needs to run as
    root and be called by Apache as user www.

    Bookworm linux on a Pi4.

    https://github.com/OliveTin/OliveTin

    might be worth a look. I only had a short look and have no own experience yet.

    Intersting. In the end I added this to /etc/sudoers

    #allow www to access to hwinfo.sh
    www-data ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/scripts/hwinfo.sh

    and then invoking
    #!/bin/sh
    echo "content-type:text/html"
    echo
    sudo /usr/local/scripts/hwinfo.sh

    from a script in /usr/lib/cgi-bin...

    Apache and firefox seem happy enough and I can AJAX that from the
    browser to get uptodate info.



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