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Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 20:52:52 -0500
From: Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com>
To: Christian <chris_news@arcor.de>
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On 2014-05-19 20:32, Christian wrote:
> I'd like to use Python for CGI-Scripts. Is there a manual how to
> setup Python with Fast-CGI? I'd like to make sure that Python
> scripts aren't executed by www-user, but the user who wrote the
> script.

While Burak addressed your (Fast-)CGI issues, once you have a
test-script successfully giving you output, you can use the
standard-library's getpass.getuser() function to tell who your script
is running as.

-tkc