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Re: [BackupPC-users] perl-suidperl no longer available in Fedora 14

2010-07-03 16:33:06
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] perl-suidperl no longer available in Fedora 14
From: Johan Cwiklinski <mailings AT x-tnd DOT be>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:30:17 +0200
 Hello,

Le 03/07/2010 18:18, Les Mikesell a écrit :
> Johan Cwiklinski wrote:
>>  Hello,
>>
>> I've just been warned about "perl-suidperl" will no longer be available
>> in Fedora 14 :
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611009
>>
>> I'd like to know how I can make BackupPC work without that component ;
>> I'm really not familiar with suid issues at all...
>>
>> Any advices?
> Apache has its own suid mechanism that might work.  Or you could simply run 
> backuppc as the httpd user and change file ownership accordingly.  That might 
> be 
> less secure if you have other web sites on the same host, though.
>

As I do not know what users will do with their apache ; I'd prefer to
omit less secure solutions ;)

Anyways, I did not know apache has such a system ; I'll take a look at that.
Thank you for the tip!

Regards,
Johan

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