access denied

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 09:41, azeem ahmad wrote:
> 
> > > >
> > > >i assume you're running apache 2.x -- are you aware that "user" and
> > > >"group" directives aren't supported in the cgi-bin directive set in 
> >that
> > > >version. see:
> > > >
> > > >   
> ><http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_suexec.html#suexecusergroup>
> > > >
> > > >for details.
> > > >
> > >
> > > i changed the dir and files to rwx ie
> > > chmod -R 777 cgi-bin
> > >
> > > even then its saying premature end of script
> >
> >Can you run the script by hand as the user you think httpd
> >will use?
> >
> >
> apache is running as nobody:nobody
> the virtual host is running as mine:mine
> i m accessing the server remotely as root
> i dont have mine and nobody passwords
> is there any way to do it?

If you are root, you can 'su - user' for any other user
without a password.  The user does need a working shell
in /etc/passwd that you can use while testing, though.

-- 
 Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com