Re: [BackupPC-users] Permissions problem with Apache

2007-07-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Yaakov Chaikin wrote: > Allen, > > In that blog, he the user for the Apache server (in httpd.conf) is > the SAME as the user for the BackupPC server (in config.pl). > > Yes, that works for me too. However, I am trying to separate the user > that runs Apache and the user that runs BackupPC. > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Permissions problem with Apache

2007-07-22 Thread Yaakov Chaikin
Allen, In that blog, he the user for the Apache server (in httpd.conf) is the SAME as the user for the BackupPC server (in config.pl). Yes, that works for me too. However, I am trying to separate the user that runs Apache and the user that runs BackupPC. The docs seem to say that all I need to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Permissions problem with Apache

2007-07-22 Thread Allen Stowe
Yaakov Chaikin wrote: > Ok, after reading some more docs, the following set up should work, > but it doesn't: > > 1) Everything that has to do with BackupPC is owned by user "backuppc". > 2) config.pl specified "backuppc" as the user. > 3) The CGI script (which, for me, happens to be at > /usr/shar

Re: [BackupPC-users] Permissions problem with Apache

2007-07-22 Thread Yaakov Chaikin
Ok, after reading some more docs, the following set up should work, but it doesn't: 1) Everything that has to do with BackupPC is owned by user "backuppc". 2) config.pl specified "backuppc" as the user. 3) The CGI script (which, for me, happens to be at /usr/share/BackupPC/sbin//BackupPC_Admin) is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Permissions problem with Apache

2007-07-22 Thread Yaakov Chaikin
Ok, I dug up something from the docs, which says this: *** If you are using mod_perl then apache should run as user __BACKUPPCUSER__. *** I do have lines in the httpd.conf which load the mod_per

[BackupPC-users] Permissions problem with Apache

2007-07-22 Thread Yaakov Chaikin
Hi, Now that I got my BackupPC working, I broke it again trying to secure it further. Previously, I was told here that I should not be running Apache web server as the same user as running BackupPC. So, I kept Apache running as 'apache' user and switched BackupPC (in config.pl) to be "backuppc"