Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 14:47:54 -0800 (PST) From: Kevin Marcus <kmarcus@saturn.infospace.com> To: Jason McNew <jase@clearsail.net> Cc: database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't open a db file as 'nobody' despite 0666 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981027144744.1983A-100000@saturn.infospace.com> In-Reply-To: <36364295.3956221F@clearsail.net>
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does nobody have a valid shell?
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On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Jason McNew wrote:
> 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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