RE: [cobalt-users] [Raq2-users] HTTPD User

["John P. Cuprisin" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I also am having this problem and it is affecting my Miva Merchant
operation to the extent that it is causing me to go think of going
back to a standard Unix server. The problem occurs when the database
is packed, all of the file ownership and permissions are changed to
nobody.nobody chmod 500. I believe that is because the apache is set
to user and group nobody, but why the permission change. That change
makes the databases unavailable to the store functions. They must be
set to the site's ownership and read/write by all. If I change the
site's ownership to nobody.nobody then the user of that site can't
access their own files for maintenance. I have these setups on
non-cobalt servers and this does not occur. There are many other
instances of changes in other cgi files and again only on the cobalt.
I have written a script to change them back to the desired state but
this is a real pain....Unix BSDI and FreeBSD doesn't do this!

John
JCSolutions

>-----Original Message-----
>From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jim Euliano
>Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 3:40 PM
>To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [cobalt-users] [Raq2-users] HTTPD User
>
>
>I have several linux boxes and only on my Raq2 does this
>particular event
>take place.  I've been told that it is "normal for linux" to
>do this by
>some people at Cobalt... but I find it odd that it ONLY
>happens on my Raq2
>and not my other linux machines.
>
>Many of my web page html files and also several of my cgi
>script files are
>having their permissions altered.  Regardless of who created
>the file or
>what site group they were in, the files are being changed to
>owner: HTTPD
>and group: USERS.
>
>At first it was no big deal... because I could just log in
>as root and
>change them back.  But now it is beginning to interfere with
>the operation
>of my scripts as they require certain permission settings,
>and when they
>change to uid: HTTPD, the script can no longer access the
>file because it
>doesn't have rights.  Short of setting every file on my
>machine +777, what
>can I do to ensure this doesn't happen any more.
>
>Also, is there a reason why this IS happenning???  Maybe if
>I could see
>some positive benefit for this happenning, I wouldn't be so
>adament towards
>stopping it.
>
>Jim
>
>
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