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Old 01-10-2010, 07:08 PM   #1
psychobyte
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perl - process control as different users

Hi,

I need to control daemons like dhcp/bind from within a perl script. I could run the script as root to restart/stop/start the daemons however, this is not good for security.

What are the ways of controlling processes within perl as different users?


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Old 01-10-2010, 07:42 PM   #2
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I would use perl to invoke sudo, and allow passwordless sudo for the specific commands you need to run to control the daemon.
 
  


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