[Pythonmac-SIG] pythonw from Apache

Ryan Wilcox ryanwilcox at mac.com
Tue Mar 16 00:05:05 EST 2004


>
>> Yes. You either need to be running apache as the logged-in user 
>> (obviously - the
>> one with the active window manager ;) ) or use cgi-wrap.

> I'm still not sure that gets you enough of a connection to "leak"
> access from apache to your logged-in environment (iirc it isn't just
> uids, but inhereted port-rights?) but at least it's a start...

cgiwrap works (and works well) to get access to the window manager from 
Apache. I'm assuming it does a fair bit of magic behind the scenes, 
yes, but it's a slick tool.

<http://cgiwrap.sourceforge.net> may give you more info.

HTH,
_Ryan Wilcox





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