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

2008-12-16 14:26:01
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] CentOS 4.7 suid fails repeatedly with BackupPC
From: Mark Maciolek <mlm AT sr.unh DOT edu>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:24:33 -0500

Jim McNamara wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) 
> <nils AT lemonbit DOT com <mailto:nils AT lemonbit DOT com>> wrote:
> 
>     Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>      > Why is suexec involved?
> 
>     Les is right, you don't need suexec. Trying to use it is probably
>     causing your problem.
> 
>      >> [2008-12-15 10:37:00]: file is either setuid or setgid:
>      >> (/var/www/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin)
>      >
>      > Yes, the config.pl script should have installed it mode 04554.any
>     interest (an
>      > It needs to be group-readable by apache, owned by backuppc and suid.
> 
>     4550 should be enough for everybody. :o)
> 
>     Nils Breunese.
> 
> 
> Ladies and  Gentlemen,
> 
> There's been a ton of posts in the last few minutes, so I'll try to 
> respond to all of those in this reply.
> 
> To Adam Goryachev, I don't have any interest in CentOS (and judging by 
> other posts in this thread, competence with it either). The company I 
> work for got roped in using it for an individual project, as another 
> vendor brought in to do the telephony portion of this project will only 
> work on RHEL 4.5 and luckily (for the bottom line) CentOS 4.7.  I've 
> been strictly a Debian user since Woody, and this whole experience has 
> confirmed to me that my default choice was correct!
> 
> To Les and Nils, first I'm sorry to be disparaging one of your preferred 
> versions of linux. I installed httpd-suexec somewhere almost immediately 
> after installing the OS, and it certainly appears to be the proverbial 
> smoking gun. I tried usung yum just to remove httpd-suexec, and it would 
> only do that if I also allowed yum to remove httpd! As noting else is 
> installed yet (the other contractor mentioned previously begins work 
> tomorrow), I allowed it. That went fine, it pulled out these packages -
> 
> mod_perl, php-pear, php-odbc, mod_ssl, system-config-httpd, httpd, 
> httpd-manual, httpd-suexec, webalizer, php-ldap, php, and mod_python.
> 
> I figured all would be well with this. Let it remove everything listed 
> above, then reinstall httpd, and hopefully the skies will brighten, 
> rainbows and unicorns will dance around me, and oh yes, backuppc will work!
> 
> Unfortunately, yum won't install just httpd without httpd-suexec, as 
> show here -
> 
> [root@telephony jim]# yum install httpd
> Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package httpd.x86_64 0:2.0.52-41.ent.2.centos4 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: httpd-suexec for package: httpd
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package httpd-suexec.x86_64 0:2.0.52-41.ent.2.centos4 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> =============================================================================
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
> =============================================================================
> Installing:
>  httpd                   x86_64     2.0.52-41.ent.2.centos4  
> update            955 k
> Installing for dependencies:
>  httpd-suexec            x86_64     2.0.52-41.ent.2.centos4  
> update             31 k
> 
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> Install      2 Package(s)
> Update       0 Package(s)
> Remove       0 Package(s)
> Total download size: 986 k
> Is this ok [y/N]: n
> Exiting on user Command
> Complete!
> 
> Yum clean all followed by yum update still tries to install both httpd 
> and httpd-suexec.
> 
> I'm going to google to find a solution to this (clearly isn't backuppc 
> related), and when I can get a functional httpd, I'll post back. If 
> anyone has suggestions on how to accomplish this, please email me off list.

yum install httpd -x httpd-suexec

We are running CentOS 5.2 backing up 37 clients so far with no major issues.

rpm -qa|grep htt
system-config-httpd-1.3.3.3-1.el5
httpd-2.2.3-11.el5_2.centos.4

rpm -qa | grep Back
BackupPC-3.1.0-2.el5






> 
> Thanks again for everyone's help!
> 
> 
> 
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