Ivan Arteaga wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Ivan Arteaga wrote:
>>   
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am running BackupPC on a centos box, it works fine but the problem is 
>>> I am also running squirrelmail (and sendmail, samba etc) on the same 
>>> server because it is a small business machine.
>>> When I did change the User from apache to backuppc in the 
>>> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf I can access the backuppc web interface but 
>>> lose the access via webmail using squirrelmail because it uses apache as 
>>> user access.
>>> It is any way to work both services together without problems? May i run 
>>> backuppc web interface using apache as user?
>>> I will appreciate any comment.
>>>     
>> If you aren't using mod_perl for backuppc you don't need to run httpd and 
>> backuppc as the same user.  Normally you don't use the web interface enough 
>> that 
>> the speed matters anyway. The cgi program can run setuid - it just has to be 
>> owned by backuppc and executable by httpd.
>>
>> But, you are kind of missing the point of having a backup if it's on the 
>> same 
>> machine as the things being backed up.
>>
>>   
> Thanks for the reply, how can I check if I am  using mod_perl? I did 
> install using rpm and don't remember any choice at the install time.

The rpm probably dropped a conf file snipped in /etc/httpd/conf.d.  See 
if it mentions perl as a handler.  If it just has a scriptalias, it 
isn't mod_perl, but then the BackupPC_Admin script should have the 
setuid bit set (wherever it landed).

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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