Giving Apache sudo access

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

 Like all things Linux, there are at least three ways to do everything.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jared
>Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 11:36 PM

>
>>>> Ouch! It requires recompiling Apache. 
>> 
>>> Are you sure it requires recompiling?  On most distros it 
>should be a 
>>> default module.  In Debian I found it precompiled at:
>>> /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_suexec.so
>> 
>> Apache's docs are distro-agnostic and harken back to the days when 
>> every howto told you how to patch and recompile the kernel.  (Those 
>> things persisted long after the modular kernel made it unnecessary.)
>
>Aha! The plot thickens. Thank you, Jonathan. Indeed, I read 
>the Apache docs and bailed on the idea because they mentioned 
>recompiling. In fact, the module exists, at the same location 
>you described, on a Gentoo box.
>
>I think I can tinker with Kyle's proposal after all, as it 
>appears that mod_suexec is ubiquitous.
>
>Thank you, all who responded. I learned a lot, and now have 
>three valid solutions to the problem.
>
>-Jared