Beginning with OpenBSD 3.2, /var is mounted as nosuid if /var exists as a separate partition. This default configuration occurs only with new installs and not with in-place upgrades.
This will cause tmda-cgi to fail right after login. Since the nosuid causes a silent failure, the error message that appears specifies an IOError and a failure to read the user's crypt_key file. This is an effect of nosuid and not the real problem. I made a quick fix by editing /etc/fstab and removing nosuid from the /var partition. A better solution would be to make a small partition specifically for web related programs that need a suid. By the way, the same problem occurs with qmail if it is installed in its default location of /var/qmail. Again, the best solution is to make a small /var/qmail/bin partition and allow it to be suid. Thanks to Gre7g Luterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for his great tmda-cgi program, and for fixing other problems I was having running tmda-cgi with WN, my web server of choice. Hope that helps someone else. Jeff -- Jeff Ross Open Vistas Networking, Inc. http://www.openvistas.net _________________________________________________ tmda-workers mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-workers
