Re: suexec does not work with "users" group

[Christopher McCrory <chrismcc pricegrabber com>]

Hello...


On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 12:30, Akop Pogosian wrote:
> RHEL 3.0 comes with a group "users" (gid:100) however, if a that's a
> user's primary group, suexec won't work because I guess it has been
> compiled not to allow GIDs this low. However, this wasn't the case
> during the times of RedHat Linux 7.3 which we have been running on our
> web server. For some historic reasons, all users at our site belong to
> that group (we don't use user private groups). After upgrading it to
> RHEL, users' CGI scripts stopped working because of this. As a
> workaround, I have compiled suexec myself with a correct option. Why
> does RedHat go around breaking old conventions like this one without
> even warning? Should I report this as a bug? Would it be even
> considered a bug?
> 

easiest way would be to recompile just the suexec binary with the opts
you want and put it in /usr/sbin.

snag the .src.rpm edit httpd.spec
rpmbuild -bi httpd.spec

copy suexec to server:/usr/sbin


> 
> -akop
> 
> 
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