Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script.

From	Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc, comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject	Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script.
Date	2025-05-23 23:11 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On Fri, 23 May 2025 13:26:34 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> I have a shell script that monitors hardware stuff - it needs to run as
> root and be called by Apache as user www.

You could have it running all the time and accepting requests to do things 
via a socket interface that you can connect to from a web-based frontend.

Alternatively, it can be running its own mini HTTP server, either directly 
exposed on a public port or accessed via a server-side proxy (what they 
insist on calling a “reverse proxy”) from Apache/Nginx.

Either way, this would likely be awkward to implement as a shell script. I 
would recommend using Python instead.

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Simple way for web to execute root shell script. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-23 13:26 +0100
  Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-05-23 13:51 +0100
    Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2025-05-23 14:47 +0000
      Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-23 16:06 +0100
    Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-23 16:00 +0100
  Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2025-05-23 14:08 +0000
    Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2025-05-23 14:23 +0000
      Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-23 16:03 +0100
    Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-23 16:02 +0100
      Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-23 17:24 +0200
        Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-23 17:53 +0100
        Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-24 00:37 +0000
  Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. John-Paul Stewart <jpstewart@personalprojects.net> - 2025-05-23 10:14 -0400
    Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-23 16:05 +0100
  Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-05-23 16:46 +0000
  Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-05-23 18:44 +0000
    Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-23 21:44 +0100
      Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-05-24 02:13 +0000
        Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-24 09:18 +0100
      Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-05-24 08:27 +0100
      Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Chris Elvidge <chris@internal.net> - 2025-05-24 13:28 +0100
      Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2025-05-25 10:17 +0300
        Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-25 08:52 +0100
          Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-25 09:42 +0000
            Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-05-29 03:04 +0000
              Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-29 12:03 +0100
          Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2025-05-26 11:27 +0300
            Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-26 12:31 +0100
            Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-05-27 21:44 +0100
              Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-28 08:58 +0100
                Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-05-28 21:34 +0100
                Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2025-05-29 10:07 +0300
                Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-29 12:14 +0100
                Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2025-05-30 20:53 +0300
                Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-30 19:36 +0100
                Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-29 11:36 +0100
                Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-05-29 14:41 +0000
                Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-29 18:47 +0100
  Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-05-23 22:17 +0100
  Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-23 23:11 +0000
  Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-05-24 01:43 -0400
    Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-24 09:20 +0100
      Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-24 10:58 +0100
        Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-24 11:27 +0100
        Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-05-24 17:55 +0000
          Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-24 19:24 +0100
      Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-05-24 15:41 +0000
  Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Andrew Smallshaw <andrews@sdf.org> - 2025-05-24 17:35 +0000
    Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-202505.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2025-05-24 23:34 +0200
  Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Dominik Ałaszewski <Dominik.Alaszewski@gazeta.pl.invalid> - 2025-05-26 17:24 +0000
    Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-26 20:44 +0100
      Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-26 22:22 +0000
    Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script. c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-05-27 01:48 -0400

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