On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Tomasz Pawlik <tomi AT mtl.one DOT pl> wrote:
> Easiest way is using suid wrapper around BackupPC_Admin.
>
> 1. Revert changes in httpd.conf,
> 2. find BackupPC_Admin file (I guess
> /usr/share/BackupPC/sbin/BackupPC_Admin),
> 3. rename BackupPC_Admin to BackupPC_Admin.pl,
> 4. create file BackupPC_Admin.c and change it for Your needs,
> -- cut --

Yes, that works, but it is already done that way as installed from the
EPEL RPM package.

rpm -q --changelog BackupPC shows:

 * Sat Jul 31 2010 Johan Cwiklinski <johan AT x-tnd DOT be> 3.1.0-15
- perl-suidperl is no longer available (fix bug #611009)

which is probably when it was added to keep it working.

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