It appears I've been unclear. I asked:
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We have users who run apache and/or squid on gs140s running
t64 v4.0f, on port 80 (we start processes at boot or they
use sudo).
They want to be able to run a process on the host which monitors
apache/squid, and if it goes down this process (run as unprivileged
user) would be able to restart apache/squid on port 80. I'm looking
for a way to do this without storing the root password on disk somewhere.
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The salient issue is that we want a continuously running *PROCESS*
to be able to restart a webserver on port 80, and we want this
continuously running *process* to be owned by an unprivileged user
account. Thus, there's no mechanism to pass a password to sudo,
which is what people have suggested - at least there doesn't seem
to be.
Thanks again...
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Judith Reed
jreed_at_appliedtheory.com
(315) 453-2912 x5835
Received on Tue Jun 05 2001 - 18:50:42 NZST