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Prevent setuid from dropping setcap user privileges (VirtualBox)
I'm trying to run a web server from a headless, NAT'd VirtualBox guest. VirtualBox needs to bind to port 80, but the only way to do so is by running VirtualBox as root. To get around this, I tried ...
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What's the safest way to kick off a root-level process via cgi on an Apache server?
The problem: I have a script that runs periodically via a cron job as root, but I want to give people a way to kick it off asynchronously too, via a webpage. (The script will be written to ensure it ...
