Re: suexec does not work with "users" group

[Christopher McCrory <chrismcc pricegrabber com>]

Hello...

On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 12:55, Garrick Staples wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:45:33PM -0700, Christopher McCrory alleged:
> > 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
> 
> Did you read all the way through?  His question wasn't about fixing the
> problem (he solved the problem just fine).  The question is about RH
> breaking it in the first place.

D'oh!

	I really should have read it all the way through. 




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