custom menu items, impersonation

Andy Knipp

I have a custom menu that traverse the directory structure, grabbing DCRs, slurping them in, if s/$this/$that/ happened, writing it out.

The problem is that iwui needs world write access to do this.
iwui is a member of the group (secondary group not Primary) which has write access to the file, but no go. If I give world write, it works.

There is a devnet article named:

Custom Menu CGI Programs Cannot Access Files

which looks like it address my problem, but it is pretty sparse on the details.

Anyone use this to have iwui impersonate the user executing the CGI ?

I would have thought the sample cgi (show_env) would use this feature but it does not.

Tips/pointers/RTFMs appreciated, (just don't call me a girl, Smitty) :-)


Andy