BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC

2008-12-17 12:52:28
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC
From: Les Mikesell <les AT futuresource DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:49:36 -0600
Jim McNamara wrote:
> 
> Thanks again for everyone's help, I'm a longtime lurker on these boards, 
> and I was quite pleased to have support when my usualy install 
> conditions were thrown out!

I'm still curious about the real cause of your problem, though.  I 
revived an old vmware image of Centos 4.x, updated to 4.7, then 
installed a backuppc 3.1.0, taking defaults from the configure.pl script 
for about everything except putting the cgi interface in 
/var/www/cgi-bin and images under /var/www/html/backuppc, and the only 
thing it took to make it work was changing the group of 
/var/www/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin to apache and then making it suid again.

It does have httpd-suexec installed but it isn't complaining.  Is your 
backuppc user id below 500?  That could have been a problem - the 
default suexec configuration sets 500 as the minimum uid to permit. 
Below that is reserved for system ids and the system tools like 
'adduser' should start at 501.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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