[Asterisk-Users] vmail.cgi: -rwsr-sr-x as root *still* won't read the files

mike castleman mlc at democracynow.org
Thu Apr 28 21:58:31 MST 2005


Try making sure you have installed the suid perl stuff if your OS needs
it. Some kernels do not natively obey the setuid flag when executing
scripts

(On Debian, this involves installing the perl-suid package. Other
Linux-based distributions probably need something similar.)

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 11:43:57PM -0500, Brian Capouch wrote:
> I'm running Apache as "nobody."  Wondering why the SUID vmail.cgi script 
> still can't read my files; it comes with the bits set SUID, which I 
> thought would do the trick.
> 
> It works just fine if I make the files in the maildir world-readable.
> 
> Thanks.  No clues in the archives no Wiki that appear germane.
> 
> B.

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mike castleman
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