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-rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libcgi.tex | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libcgi.tex b/Doc/lib/libcgi.tex index 055f66c..add322d 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libcgi.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libcgi.tex @@ -598,7 +598,9 @@ Usually, this means using absolute path names --- \envvar{PATH} is usually not set to a very useful value in a CGI script. \item When reading or writing external files, make sure they can be read -or written by every user on the system. +or written by the userid under which your CGI script will be running: +this is typically the userid under which the web server is running, or some +explicitly specified userid for a web server's \samp{suexec} feature. \item Don't try to give a CGI script a set-uid mode. This doesn't work on most systems, and is a security liability as well. |