Date: Fri, 21 Jul 95 14:39:56 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: radova@risc6.unisa.ac.za (A. Radovanovic) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: www cgi sripts problem Message-ID: <9507212039.AA06830@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <9507211908.AA23453@risc6.unisa.ac.za> from "A. Radovanovic" at Jul 21, 95 09:08:04 pm
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> I am having a problem running the WWW cgi scripts writen in perl. > My scripts are owned by nobody and when started by www client > she/he gets response: whatever.cgi: permission denied > > Everything works fine when root executes them locally. Probably the permissions on the files themselves or the permissions on one of the path components used to get to the files is wrong. You can be root and "su nobody" and test the path, or just visually inspect it, if you know how directory permissions and exclusion groups operate. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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