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[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

Hi Robert,

You should not have to run chmod and chown with the default setup, where 
wwsympa.fcgi has the SetUID bit to run as user Sympa.


Robert G. Ristroph wrote:

> [...]
>
> The list was created, but the permissions don't look right -- they are owned 
> by the user and group that the webserver runs as, not the user sympa.  Also, 
> there was no sub-directory named after the virtual host,
> as you mention below.
>
> I added these lines to wwwsympa.cgi (I renamed it from .fcgi because I
> don't have that fast cgi stuff installed on my linux) at line 5217:
>
>     #inserted by RGR to fix permissions
>     system("chgrp -R sympa /home/sympa/expl/");
>     system("chmod -R a+rwx /home/sympa/expl/");
> #     system("ls -la /home/sympa/expl/ > /tmp/sympa_ls2");
>
> The need to do that is probably a result of how Debian is set up, not
> a problem with sympa.  I tried to make sympa and www-data be members
> of each other's groups, but I still haven't gotten it right because I
> had to do this.
>
> [...]
>
> After writing that, I did eventually get everything working.  I did it by 
> putting lines in sympa.pl and wwsympa.cgi that chmod'd and chown'd all files 
> correctly via sudo, and setting up sudo to allow those users
> to do it without a password.
>  

--
Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseau des Universités
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