BackupPC-users

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

2008-12-16 11:30:48
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: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:28:12 -0600
Jim McNamara wrote:
> 
> 
> Changing the permissions as you suggested helped, but now I'm plagued 
> with a new set of errors that make little to no sense to me. When I go 
> to http://my.lan.ip/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin I get a half-formed page, and 
> this as the contents of the /var/log/httpd/error_log -
> 
> [Tue Dec 16 10:18:43 2008] [error] file permissions deny server 
> execution/var/www/backuppc/backuppc/image/BackupPC_stnd.css
> [Tue Dec 16 10:18:43 2008] [error] file permissions deny server 
> execution/var/www/backuppc/backuppc/image/sorttable.js
> [Tue Dec 16 10:18:43 2008] [error] file permissions deny server 
> execution/var/www/backuppc/backuppc/image/logo.gif
> 
> I can't see why those files should be executable. Changing them to 
> executable still leads to the same errors.

You've apparently configured apache to execute things under 
/var/www/backuppc, or /var/www/backuppc.  Don't.  Apache should only 
exectute /var/www/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin, and that directory should have 
been configure for execution in a stock Centos install.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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