Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:52:08 -0600 From: Jason McNew <jase@clearsail.net> To: database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [Fwd: can't open a db file as 'nobody' despite 0666] Message-ID: <36364E98.404E0329@clearsail.net>
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Jason McNew wrote:
> Ah, I found the problem. The particular directory was not world readable,
> and had the group set to wheel. The accounts I used to test were all in the
> wheel group. So I couldn't read it as nobody because that was the only one
> of those that was not in the wheel group. It was pilot error! I changed
> the dir a+rX and it works fine now. Thanks, and sorry for the noise. :)
>
> Steven Yang wrote:
>
> > Have you tried to chown the databse file to nobody?
> >
> > Steven
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jason McNew [SMTP:jase@clearsail.net]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 5:01 PM
> > > To: database@FreeBSD.ORG
> > > Subject: can't open a db file as 'nobody' despite 0666
> > >
> > > I'm using DB_File.pm which is a wrapper for db(3), and for some reason
> > > I
> > > can't open any database files if I'm the user 'nobody'. If I run it
> > > as
> > > a normal user (not owner or group member of the file in question), my
> > > program works fine. But, if I su over to 'nobody', it's instantly
> > > broken. I checked the db(3) manpage, but I diden't see anything about
> > > it in there. I also read DB_File.pm's POD docs and still no luck.
> > > The
> > > error I'm getting is "permission denied."
> > >
> > > Here is the simplest program I could write that duplicates the
> > > problem:
> > >
> > > #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> > > use DB_File;
> > > $db = '/home/jase/test.db';
> > > tie %urldb, 'DB_File', $db, O_RDONLY, 0666, $DB_BTREE or
> > > die("coulden't open $db: $!");
> > >
> > > whereas /home/jase/test.db is -rw-rw-rw-
> > >
> > > When I try to do this from a cgi script (apache runs as nobody) it
> > > spits
> > > out:
> > >
> > > coulden't open /home/jase/test.db: Permission denied at test.pl line
> > > 4.
> > >
> > > But the same scirpt runs just fine even when I run it as a user in a
> > > different group... except when I su to nobody..
> > >
> > > %/usr/local/bin/perl -v
> > >
> > > This is perl, version 5.005_51 built for i386-freebsd
> > >
> > >
> > > I can work around this by making apache run as a different user, but
> > > I'd
> > > still like to know why this brakes, and better still, where it needs
> > > to
> > > be documented (provided it's not pilot error!) :)
> > >
> > >
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