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List:       netsaint-devel
Subject:    Re: [netsaint-devel] var/rw/netsaint.cmd permissions problem in 0.0.7b6
From:       "Ethan Galstad" <netsaint () netsaint ! org>
Date:       2001-07-20 21:56:00
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As noted in the docs, you must enable the directory group sticky 
bit if you want newly created files to inherit the permissions of the 
directory.  Do this with:

chmod g+s /usr/local/netsaint/var/rw


From:           	Eric Herget <herget@pinpoint.com>

> I'm a newbie on this list [ducking...]
> 
> I did a search of the list archive and found no mention of
> this possible problem so I thought I'd point it out here.
> 
> The docs say I should change the ownership of my var/rw
> dir to allow the user under which httpd runs to write to
> a netsaint.cmd file.  However, NetSaint now creates a named
> pipe called var/rw/netsaint.cmd when it starts up.  This
> means that no matter what permissions I give the var/rw
> directory, my httpd user (nobody) can't write to this
> named pipe because it is created with permissions:
>   rw-rw---- netsaint netsaint
> 
> I've worked around this in my somewhat secure development
> environment by changing base/utils.c to call umask(0) and
> mkfifo() addition of world read & write modes.  Not sure
> how secure this would be in a production environment.
> 
> Eric
> 
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Ethan Galstad
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