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From: afshin lamei <afshinlamei@gmail.com>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: iptables permission problem in perl scripts
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 12:04:30 +0430	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3115d56e05081400344964ebcd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Dear all,
I have a cgi script, which uses some perl scripts in which i'm running
iptables command using "system" function, like this:
myfile.pl:
......
system("iptables -F FORWARD")
......

the cgi file is owned by root/root and is run by user nobody.
myfile.pl is owned by root/root, and I've it setuid (chmod u+s
myfile.pl ; chown root:nobody myfile.pl) to be able to run iptable
commands, but it returns this error:
/////
modprobe: Can't locate module ip_tables.
iptables v1.2.11: can't initialize iptables table `nat': Permission
denied (you must be root) perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be
upgraded.
/////
what's the solution?
thanks a lot
afshin lame


             reply	other threads:[~2005-08-14  7:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-14  7:34 afshin lamei [this message]
2005-08-14  8:27 ` iptables permission problem in perl scripts Gavin Henry
2005-08-15  5:47 ` Grant Taylor
2005-08-15  9:17   ` /dev/rob0
2005-08-15  6:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-14  9:29 psihozefir
2005-08-15  5:44 ` Grant Taylor

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