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What unix user do scripts execute as?

April 26, 2017execute scripts Unix user

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What unix user do scripts execute as?

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For individual users, both PHP and CGI scripts will run as you, not as the web server’s user id. For societies, rather than running CGI/PHP scripts as an individual, we have introduced a unix user for each society. This user cannot log in, however it is used as the user under which all society PHP/CGI scripts are run. Outgoing email generated by society CGI/PHP scripts will, by default, appear to come from [socname]-webmaster@srcf.ucam.org. See Society email addresses. Note that any CGI/PHP script which hogs the CPU for more than 2 minutes will be terminated by the system. This should not affect anything other than out-of-control scripts, as CGI/PHP scripts typically execute in a few seconds. It is a measure to prevent the server being excessively slowed down by buggy scripts which go into an infinite loop.