From owner-freebsd-security Wed Nov 13 21: 1:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B141837B401 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 21:01:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp01.wlv.untd.com (smtp01.wlv.untd.com [209.247.163.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3551E43E91 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 21:01:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from idiot1@netzero.net) Received: (qmail 24116 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2002 04:53:06 -0000 Received: from dialup-65.58.237.105.dial1.tampa1.level3.net (HELO netzero.net) (65.58.237.105) by smtp01.wlv.untd.com with SMTP; 14 Nov 2002 04:53:06 -0000 Message-ID: <3DD32C5A.9784D742@netzero.net> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 23:53:46 -0500 From: Kirk Bailey Organization: Silas Dent Memorial Cabal of ERIS Esoteric and hot dog boiling society X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "security@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: list scripts, permissions, and ownerships. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have a problem. I am writing a script to create lists, and another to destroy them- that is, MAIL lists, such as mailman, majordomo, and mojomail and tinylist all work with. (I write TinyList.) The aliases file must have certain permissions, and it appears to be 644 in my freebsd box- hope that's correct, but it works fine. And the ownership is root, and that works fine. well, apache in the box is nobody:wheel and runs scripts as such. I have the scripts owned nobody:wheel also. They run, but it cannot access the aliases file-permissions/ownerships. OK, changed the relevant scripts' ownerships to root (gasp!) and tried to run things that way. still no luck. Scripts apparently are running as nobody, even though owned by root. OK, a few questions. First, how to I get a script to discover what identity it is running as? Second, how can I insure it runs as a particular identity(so as to be compatable with the email system), when run by the web server? third, what are the correct ownerships and permissions for /etc/mail and for aliases? Just want to make sure I have things right. -- end Respectfully, Kirk D Bailey +---------------------"Thou Art Free." -Eris-----------------------+ | http://www.howlermonkey.net mailto:highprimate@howlermonkey.net | | KILL spam dead! http://www.scambusters.org/stopspam/#Pledge | | http://www.tinylist.org +--------+ mailto:grumpy@tinylist.org | +------------------Thinking| NORMAL |Thinking----------------------+ +--------+ --------------------------------------------- Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message