Re: [OT] sbox error
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Cheers AlainThis was a good indicator of where I was going wrong, sbox had thepermissions of --x--x--x but it turns out it didn't have the correctusername and group either.I managed to get it fixed by having the following permissions etc.---s--x--x 1 root bin 24869 Mar 3 10:55 sboxI thought I would post this just in case anybody else might come acrosssimilar issues...Thanks again...Alanon 28/2/03 6:53 pm, Alain Russell at alain.russell@blackpepper.co.nz wrote:> Does the Sbox have setguid privileges ?> what are the permissions .. I just wenth through the same thing with a new> version of Sendmail ..> > turns out the permissions needed to be r-sr-xr-x> the s being for 'setuserid'> > to 'setguid' you need to 'sudo chmod g+s cginamehere'> > HTH> Alain> > >> Hi>> >> Does anyone have experience with a thing called sbox? Here is the>> opening paragraph about it:->> >> --------->> sbox is a CGI wrapper script that allows Web site hosting services to>> safely grant CGI authoring privileges to untrusted clients. In addition>> to changing the process privileges of client scripts to match their>> owners, it goes beyond other wrappers by placing configurable ceilings>> on script resource usage, avoiding unintentional (as well as>> intentional) denial of service attacks. It also optionally allows the>> Webmaster to place client's CGI scripts in a chroot'ed shell restricted>> to the author's home directories. --------->> >> My problem is that this was working on our server and now for some>> reason it isn't and not even the simplest formmail script will run on>> our server :(>> >> I am getting the following error for anyone that might be able to>> help:->> >> couldn't setgid() to 10000 (Operation not permitted)>> >> I have been in to check my error logs but get nothing different from>> what is stated above.>> >> Hope someone can help...>> >> Kind Regards>> >> Alan>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------->> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to>> the mailing list
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Cheers AlainThis was a good indicator of where I was going wrong, sbox had thepermissions of --x--x--x but it turns out it didn't have the correctusername and group either.I managed to get it fixed by having the following permissions etc.---s--x--x 1 root bin 24869 Mar 3 10:55 sboxI thought I would post this just in case anybody else might come acrosssimilar issues...Thanks again...Alanon 28/2/03 6:53 pm, Alain Russell at alain.russell@blackpepper.co.nz wrote:> Does the Sbox have setguid privileges ?> what are the permissions .. I just wenth through the same thing with a new> version of Sendmail ..> > turns out the permissions needed to be r-sr-xr-x> the s being for 'setuserid'> > to 'setguid' you need to 'sudo chmod g+s cginamehere'> > HTH> Alain> > >> Hi>> >> Does anyone have experience with a thing called sbox? Here is the>> opening paragraph about it:->> >> --------->> sbox is a CGI wrapper script that allows Web site hosting services to>> safely grant CGI authoring privileges to untrusted clients. In addition>> to changing the process privileges of client scripts to match their>> owners, it goes beyond other wrappers by placing configurable ceilings>> on script resource usage, avoiding unintentional (as well as>> intentional) denial of service attacks. It also optionally allows the>> Webmaster to place client's CGI scripts in a chroot'ed shell restricted>> to the author's home directories. --------->> >> My problem is that this was working on our server and now for some>> reason it isn't and not even the simplest formmail script will run on>> our server :(>> >> I am getting the following error for anyone that might be able to>> help:->> >> couldn't setgid() to 10000 (Operation not permitted)>> >> I have been in to check my error logs but get nothing different from>> what is stated above.>> >> Hope someone can help...>> >> Kind Regards>> >> Alan>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------->> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to>> the mailing list .>> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to>> Web Archive of this list is>> at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/> -------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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