[rt-users] 'apache' user

[John Fisher]

Mason needs to store it's session and data information in directories
that are owned by nobody with permission 700.

Go into the WebRT directory and chown the directories to apache.

I used the apache user and the following was executed from the make
install (the very last step actually):

# chown -R apache /usr/local/rt2/WebRT/data /usr/local/rt2/WebRT/sessiondata


Also bin/webmux.pl seems to change something to the apache user (and
apache group):
bin/webmux.pl Line 95

chown ( [getpwnam('apache')]->[2], [getgrnam('apache')]->[2],
        ($RT::MasonSessionDir, $interp->files_written) );


Hopefully this will be it - if not, changing the Makefile and reinstalling
should work. (I kept the output of the make install and all it does with
the WEB_USER and WEB_GROUP is the chown above and substituting the
variables !!WEB_USER!! and !!WEB_GROUP!! in all the files with the values
from the makefile - doing a grep through all the sources should tell you
which files they were)


jon


On Fri, 25 May 2001, Steele, David S. wrote:

> 
> I've just upgraded my box from RedHat 6.2 to 7.1. The Apache upgrade changed
> the running user from 'nobody' to 'apache'. Now I'm getting (quite pretty)
> Mason errors related to permissions. I've started manually fixing things to
> make the errors go away, but that is starting to look ugly.
> 
> What is the right way to fix this? Will reinstalling RT (1.3.70) take care
> of this automatically?
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