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mkdir and others fail

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tjbradford

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Dec 14, 2007
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I have created a cgi-bin bash script that runs a treat from the commandline but fails when run from http

i think it's lacking write permissions, how can i overcome this ?

can i run the http as root to confirm that it's permission related?

some of the commands are
mkisofs
cryptsetup
losetup
mkdir
cp
mksquashfs

 
Hi

tjbradford said:
fails when run from http
Better give us details on this one :
[ul]
[li]Any error message in the browser ?[/li]
[li]HTTP response code indicating an error ?[/li]
[li]Something in the web server's error log ? ( By the way, what kind of web server you use ? )[/li]
[/ul]
Regarding the permissions, better run [tt]whoami[/tt] and/or [tt]id[/tt] from a CGI script, then [tt]su[/tt] to the user they displayed before running the script from the command line. Running a CGI script with root permission is not a good idea.


Feherke.
 
hi see below

uid=33( gid=33( groups=33(
/usr/lib/cgi-bin


DOCUMENT_ROOT=/var/www
GATEWAY_INTERFACE=CGI/1.1
HTTP_ACCEPT=application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING=gzip, deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE=en-us
HTTP_CONNECTION=keep-alive
HTTP_HOST=172.30.100.53
HTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
PWD=/usr/lib/cgi-bin
QUERY_STRING=
REMOTE_ADDR=172.24.43.197
REMOTE_PORT=55708
REQUEST_METHOD=GET
REQUEST_URI=/cgi-bin/test2.cgi
SCRIPT_FILENAME=/usr/lib/cgi-bin/test2.cgi
SCRIPT_NAME=/cgi-bin/test2.cgi
SERVER_ADDR=172.30.100.53
SERVER_ADMIN=webmaster@localhost
SERVER_NAME=172.30.100.53
SERVER_PORT=80
SERVER_PROTOCOL=HTTP/1.1
SERVER_SIGNATURE=<address>Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Server at 172.30.100.53 Port 80</address>
SERVER_SOFTWARE=Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu)

i can see now that im using as my id and when i su that user i don't have the permissions

how best to lift that users permissions to the right level or make the commands require less permissions ?
 
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