<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><head><!-- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX This file is generated from xml source: DO NOT EDIT XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX --> <title>suexec - Switch user before executing external programs - Apache HTTP Server</title> <link href="../style/css/manual.css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="Main stylesheet" /> <link href="../style/css/manual-loose-100pc.css" rel="alternate stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="No Sidebar - Default font size" /> <link href="../style/css/manual-print.css" rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" /> <link href="../images/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" /></head> <body id="manual-page"><div id="page-header"> <p class="menu"><a href="../mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="../mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="../faq/">FAQ</a> | <a href="../glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="../sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p> <p class="apache">Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2</p> <img alt="" src="../images/feather.gif" /></div> <div class="up"><a href="./"><img title="<-" alt="<-" src="../images/left.gif" /></a></div> <div id="path"> <a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/">Documentation</a> > <a href="../">Version 2.2</a> > <a href="./">Programs</a></div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>suexec - Switch user before executing external programs</h1> <div class="toplang"> <p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/programs/suexec.html" title="English"> en </a> | <a href="../ko/programs/suexec.html" hreflang="ko" rel="alternate" title="Korean"> ko </a> | <a href="../tr/programs/suexec.html" hreflang="tr" rel="alternate" title="Türkçe"> tr </a></p> </div> <p><code>suexec</code> is used by the Apache HTTP Server to switch to another user before executing CGI programs. In order to achieve this, it must run as <code>root</code>. Since the HTTP daemon normally doesn't run as <code>root</code>, the <code>suexec</code> executable needs the setuid bit set and must be owned by <code>root</code>. It should never be writable for any other person than <code>root</code>.</p> <p>For further information about the concepts and and the security model of suexec please refer to the suexec documentation (<a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/suexec.html">http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/suexec.html</a>).</p> </div> <div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#synopsis">Synopsis</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#options">Options</a></li> </ul></div> <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> <div class="section"> <h2><a name="synopsis" id="synopsis">Synopsis</a></h2> <p><code><strong>suexec</strong> -<strong>V</strong></code></p> </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> <div class="section"> <h2><a name="options" id="options">Options</a></h2> <dl> <dt><code>-V</code></dt> <dd>If you are <code>root</code>, this option displays the compile options of <code>suexec</code>. For security reasons all configuration options are changeable only at compile time.</dd> </dl> </div></div> <div class="bottomlang"> <p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/programs/suexec.html" title="English"> en </a> | <a href="../ko/programs/suexec.html" hreflang="ko" rel="alternate" title="Korean"> ko </a> | <a href="../tr/programs/suexec.html" hreflang="tr" rel="alternate" title="Türkçe"> tr </a></p> </div><div id="footer"> <p class="apache">Copyright 2012 The Apache Software Foundation.<br />Licensed under the <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">Apache License, Version 2.0</a>.</p> <p class="menu"><a href="../mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="../mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="../faq/">FAQ</a> | <a href="../glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="../sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p></div> </body></html>