Re: Fw: [cobalt-users] Fixing the nasty RaQ Hack

[Larry Smith <lesmith@xxxxxxxxx>]

INRE Re: Fw: [cobalt-users] Fixing the nasty RaQ Hack:
> Dave wrote:
> >  About /usr/lib/authenticate and file permissions...
> >  I've seen that a lot of people is asking what was
> >  the original setting...
> >  On my Original rack the value was the following:
> >  [root lib]# ls -l authenticate
> >  -rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root        18316 Aug  6 20:16 authenticate
> >  Once modified it appears as following:
> >  [root lib]# ls -l authenticate
> >  -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        18316 Aug  6 20:16 authenticate
> >  I hope not to insult anyone saying that I have no clue why it says
> >  rws .. I tought permissions for the first group are always equal to
> >  421 = 7 ... what is the value of s? anyone can help?
> >  thank you in advance!
>
> I am having similar problems Dave, changed permissions to 755 and it hosed
> my .htaccess files.
> Changed it back to 4755 as recommended and the pages are not available,
> this creates an 'internal server configuration error' when requesting pages
> in a web browser.
>
> Any ideas people? Some of us new folks are struggling a bit with this one.
>
> Thanks

Marcus

  You might try disabling and then re-enabling FrontPage.  Believe the 
htaccess file has entries in the top that are FrontPage related, and if the 
server "believes" it is not enabled, then those entries will cause errors.

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