Perl CGI !

[paul.lkw]

Can perl cgi call system command that has root privilege, eg. quota 'some_user', via web page for display?

[ALL]

depends on how the server is setup... you can configure PERL to not allow it to do certain things, and have certain FTP&|accounts not allow to access other directories and system commands and stuff.

try doing it using the "system" function

[paul.lkw]

I tried to use the "system" already but I get on the html page no output and get the error on the error log 'permission denied'!

[ALL]

let us see your code

[paul.lkw]

The code is simply;

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

system "quota lkw";