weird permissions problem

[Greg Vickers]

I would have thought that the web server wouldn't need to read the Nagios 
config files??? I mean that's what I would have thought.

So if (under Debian) I add www-data to the nagios group, I won't need o+r 
on my Nagios config files. (But if Apache is hijacked, it could be used to 
read all the Nagios config files, right?)

G

At 09:13 PM 19/01/2004, Fredrik Wänglund wrote:
>If the WEB-server is not run by the user 'vickersg', then it's the 
>expected behaviour.
>
>The files must be readable by the user (or group) that runs the WEB-server.
>
>
>/FredrikW
>
>
>
>Greg Vickers wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>I'm running Nagios 1.1 under Debian and I have observed this strange problem:
>>If any of my config files are permissions o-r, I get 'not authorized' for 
>>any host/service in Nagios.
>>Here is a sample of a config file:
>>vickersg at host:/etc/nagios/objects/hostgroups/blah/blah/blah$ ll
>>total 4
>>-rw-rw-r--    1 vickersg nagios        164 Jan 19 20:50 servers.hostgroup.cfg
>>If I 'chmod o-r servers.hostgroup.cfg' then the web page won't show me 
>>any information at all.
>>Has anyone else seen this problem or am I just thinking strangely?
>>
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>>Greg Vickers
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>>Student Support and Systems,
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>>Queensland University of Technology,
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>>Brisbane,
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Greg Vickers
Computer Systems Officer
Student Support and Systems,
Teaching and Learning Support Systems,
Queensland University of Technology,
Kelvin Grove Campus,
Brisbane,
Australia

CRICOS No 00213J

Ph: 07 3864 8276 Fax: 07 3864 5425
Mob: 0416 001 674 SD: #66147 



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