Sending a signal to a process started by another user
Joonas Paalasmaa
joonas at olen.to
Wed Apr 10 05:38:01 EDT 2002
Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.pp.ru> wrote in message news:<mailman.1018377258.31626.python-list at python.org>...
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:53:58PM +0000, Joonas Paalasmaa wrote:
> > How can I send a signal to a process started by another user. In this
> > case my intention is to send a signal 14 to a process started by user jp
> > from a cgi script. The script raises an "Operation not permitted"-
> > OSError perhaps because the script is run by user "apache" and the
> > process by user "jp". How can In make this work properly?
>
> Using some form of setuid programs.
Can you give me an example how to use setuid scripts with CGI and Python.
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