How do you pass authentication on the command line?

[Dave Cragg]

At 11:07 am -0700 6/2/04, Alex Rice wrote:
>On Feb 6, 2004, at 12:50 AM, Dave Cragg wrote:
>
>>  Not answering your question exactly, but couldn't you have the CGI
>>script do a chmod on the file with shell just after it saves it.
>>This won't need sudo as the CGI runs as the owner of the file and
>>can change permissions. I just tested here and it worked.
>
>Actually in many CGI setups, a CGI script runs as "nobody"  or "www"
>or whatever user the httpd process is running as, regardless of who
>owns the script files. According to the Apache docs: "Normally, when
>a CGI or SSI program executes, it  runs as the same user who is
>running the web server."

That's right. So when the CGI script creates a file, the new file's 
owner is whatever name the script is running under (nobody, www, 
etc.). So the running CGI script can change permissions on it.

Dave