running fastcgi server via lighttpd
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I'm trying to set permissions to my fastcgi binary which is started using the lighttpd web-server. When lighttpd starts my binary, the lighttpd access permissions are transferred to my binary. I need my binary to be run with root permissions so it can access certain files. I've read that it is undesirable to run lighttpd as root for security reasons, so I am relucant to do this. If run with the same permissions as lighttpd, my fastcgi binary cannot read/write to files on my arm file system.

Below is some of the configuration in my lighttpd.conf file

    server.modules           = ( "mod_rewrite", "mod_redirect", "mod_access", "mod_fastcgi", "mod_proxy", "mod_accesslog" )
    server.username          = "www"                                
    server.groupname         = "www"                                
    server.document-root     = "/srv/www/htdocs/"                    
    server.errorlog          = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"        
    server.upload-dirs       = ("/tmp")                             
    server.max-request-size  = 40960                                  
    server.network-backend   = "write"

    fastcgi.server             = (                                            
                                 ".php" =>                     
                                 ("localhost" =>                       
                                   (                           
                                     "socket" => "/var/run/lighttpd/php-fastcgi.socket",
                                     "max-procs" => 2,
                                     "bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi -c /etc"
                                    )
                                  ),   
                                 ".cgi" =>                                                                                
                                ("localhost" =>                                
                                  (                                  
                                    "host" => "<hostAddress>",
                                    "port" => 8088,                                                   
                                    "min-procs" => 1,    
                                    "max-procs" => 1,
                                    "check-local" => "disable",
                                     "bin-path" => "/<pathToMyFastCGI_Binary>/"
                                   ) )                        
                               )                                                                      
