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+import os
+import pwd
+
+user=pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid()) # full /etc/passwd info
+
+# possibly, www-data needs to know where BOXMOX is
+KPP_HOME="/var/www/inBOX/runbox/boxmox"
+
+if not 'KPP_HOME' in os.environ.keys() or user.pw_name == "www-data" or user.pw_name == "apache":
+  os.environ["KPP_HOME"] = KPP_HOME
+  os.environ["PATH"] += ":"+KPP_HOME+"/bin:"+KPP_HOME+"/boxmox/bin"
+                        
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