[rt-users] Problem configuring the mail gateway

[Rainer Weigle]

Am Mit, 05 Apr 2000 schrieb Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH:
> On Wednesday, April 05, 2000 3:38 PM +0200, Rainer Weigle <weigle at dkrz.de> 
> wrote:
> +-----
> | only for short because if I put he stickybit on suid-wrapper the cgi
> +--->8
> 
> <pedant> setuid bit; sticky bit is +t, and is mostly obsolete </pedant>
  ^^^^^^^^ ;-), but your are right.
> 
> | suEXEC wrapper which it uses to start the scripts doesn't execute scripts
> | that have the sticky bit set.
> +--->8
> 
> I run it as rt:rt....
> 
> Instead of having *.cgi be direct symlinks to suid_wrapper, try moving them 
> to ~rt/bin and use shell scripts which exec them for the CGI scripts.

I didn't understand the hardlinks (probably because I never use them)
but now I have just created copies without the setuid bit in cgi and with the
setuid bit in bin. That seems to work !!!

> 
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Thanks  Rainer

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