[PLUG] Running Apache CGI scripts as root?

[Mike Sheinberg <m.sheiny@gmail.com>]

So, I'm trying to solve an issue at my work where I need particular CGI scripts to have root access to a number of binaries. I have been messing with the sudoers file to try to grant this access to the particular binaries in question without requiring a password but since the 'apache' account has no shell (apache:x:48:48:Apache:/var/www:/sbin/nologin)  I get the following error:

[error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo, referer: https://xxxx.xxx.xxx/xxx.py.

After some searching some people seemed to recommend trying the apache module 'suexec' but it seemed a bit fishy to me so I thought I'd ask good ol' PLUG for some best practices advice on solving this issue. I'd also like to keep the 
Defaults    requiretty  
setting in the /etc/sudoers file if possible (due to security concerns).

Thanks!
Mike 



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