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Hello!
Going to install openwebmail, and it requires suidperl to work.
search for "suidperl" in slackware64 14.0 system disk gives nothing. search over google for suidperl slackware 14 - the same. what i can do?
I found this thread that talk about openwebmail and Slackware 9.1. The OP had the same kind of trouble than you, and it seems that you have two options :
1) Rebuild perl with suidperl
However, suidperl is deprecated as explained in perl.SlackBuild :
Quote:
# We no longer include suidperl. To quote the INSTALL file:
#
# Because of the buggy history of suidperl, and the difficulty
# of properly security auditing as large and complex piece of
# software as Perl, we cannot recommend using suidperl and the feature
# should be considered deprecated.
# Instead use for example 'sudo': http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/
2) use misc/tools/suidwrap.pl to generate C wrappers for all suid script as explained into the openwebmail faq :
Quote:
[...]
Q: I got "Internal server error" when running Open WebMail?
I got "can not do setuid" error?
I got "Software error: Can't locate etc/openwebmail.conf in @INC" error?
A: There are many possible answers...
[...]
ps: If you don't want to recompile perl, you choose to may use
misc/tools/suidwrap.pl to generate C wrappers for all suid scripts.
However, this is not recommended at all, as you will not be able
to use SpeedyCGI with the openwebmail system.
Here are the steps:
1. cd cgi-bin/openwebmail
2. perl misc/tool/wrapsuid/wrapsuid.pl /fullpath/cgi-bin/openwebmail
3. change #!/usr/bin/suidperl to the path of your perl
All suid scripts will be renamed to .scriptname.pl and
the C wrapper will be generated and named as script.pl
(thanks to Chris Heegard, heegard.AT.NativeI.com)
The spellcheck may not work on Solaris when using C wrappers.
(thanks to Isam Ishaq, isam.AT.planet.edu)
very, very strange. try to do today make a c wrappers.
cd to /war/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail and do
perl misc/tools/wrapsuid/wrapsuid.pl /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail
script output to screen some text, i going to look in /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail, and see, there is some scripts with leadeing dot, and new ones. try again to open my webmail server via web browser -that again says,
/srv/httpd/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail.pl must be setuid to root to read the mail spools
i think maybe whatever not going right, try again run
perl misc/tools/wrapsuid/wrapsuid.pl /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail
but there is nothing of output, and none changes in
/var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail
i delete /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail folder and also /var/www/openwebail ( data), and copy both new from openwebmail.current.tar.gz ( distribution), restart computer, make configs changes in /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc,
make a ./openwebmail-tool.pl --init - all worked, get output.
after that, try do
perl misc/tools/wrapsuid/wrapsuid.pl /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail
-and again nothing! not any output of command, and nothing changes in /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail
not ideas, why wrapsuid.pl not work again, and what to do with that :-O
very, very strange. try to do today make a c wrappers.
cd to /war/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail and do
perl misc/tools/wrapsuid/wrapsuid.pl /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail
script output to screen some text, i going to look in /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail, and see, there is some scripts with leadeing dot, and new ones. try again to open my webmail server via web browser -that again says,
/srv/httpd/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail.pl must be setuid to root to read the mail spools
i think maybe whatever not going right, try again run
perl misc/tools/wrapsuid/wrapsuid.pl /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail
but there is nothing of output, and none changes in
/var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail
i delete /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail folder and also /var/www/openwebail ( data), and copy both new from openwebmail.current.tar.gz ( distribution), restart computer, make configs changes in /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc,
make a ./openwebmail-tool.pl --init - all worked, get output.
after that, try do
perl misc/tools/wrapsuid/wrapsuid.pl /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail
-and again nothing! not any output of command, and nothing changes in /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail
not ideas, why wrapsuid.pl not work again, and what to do with that :-O
Well, I looked at this and I encountered the same trouble. I checked the perl script (ie misc/tools/wrapsuid/wrapsuid.pl) and found that this have something to do with wrong permissions. Indeed, inside the perl script you will find the code below :
Please check if you have installed a complete set of perl 5.005 or above.
and You have uncompressed the openwebmail-1.xx.tar.gz with proper parameter.
It should be "tar -zxvBpf openwebmail-1.xx.tar.gz"
With this, the perl script seems to work :
Quote:
$ cd /tmp
$ mkdir openwebmail
$ cd openwebmail
$ tar -zxvBpf /home/seb/Downloads/openwebmail-current.tar.gz
Thank you for your help!
yes, via that wrapsuid.pl works, "fixing" and i have new sets with .pl files in cgi-bin/openwebmail
configure configfiles, run openwebmail-tool.pl --init - all looks ok.
try to go via webbrowsers to my openwebmail - got again
OpenWebMail ERROR
/srv/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/.openwebmail.pl must be setuid to root to read the mail spools
OpenWebMail version 2.53 Help?
:-O
PS i do not touch .openwebmail*.pl files - theres already have first lines of #!/usr/bin/perl -T
i think, after wrapsuid there must be all be ok with permissions, and openwebmail runs as root, but looks not to be...
also in faq is be a text about "script.pl":
All suid scripts will be renamed to .scriptname.pl and
the C wrapper will be generated and named as script.pl
(thanks to Chris Heegard, heegard.AT.NativeI.com)
i also do not found script.pl in cgi-bin/openwebmail...
Sorry!
looks like must be manually set user ID on execution for openwebmail.pl
i do it, and now openwebmail login looks ok until that. today create a some users and check if log in and so on works...
thank you![COLOR="Silver"]
Hello!
Trying to install openwebmail 2.53 on a slackware32 14, I had follow the faq from the howto slackware ( docs.slackware.com / howtos:network_services:install_openwebmail ) and the faq of openwebmail site ( openwebmail.acatysmoof.com / doc/install/slackware/13.37/HOWTO_Install_OpenWebMail_Slackware_13.37.txt ).
As I didnt find the answer I post this question with the errors messages I get at the following step : "./openwebmail-tool.pl --init"
defined(%hash) is deprecated at /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/shares/ow-shared.pl line 201.
(Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
defined(%hash) is deprecated at /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/shares/ow-shared.pl line 207.
(Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
defined(%hash) is deprecated at /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/shares/ow-shared.pl line 208.
(Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
defined(%hash) is deprecated at /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/shares/ow-shared.pl line 209.
(Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
defined(%hash) is deprecated at /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/shares/ow-shared.pl line 211.
(Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
defined(%hash) is deprecated at /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/shares/ow-shared.pl line 224.
(Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
defined(@array) is deprecated at /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/shares/ow-shared.pl line 1153.
(Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
defined(@array) is deprecated at /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/shares/ow-shared.pl line 1968.
(Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
defined(@array) is deprecated at /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/shares/mailfilter.pl line 369.
(Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
defined(@array) is deprecated at /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/shares/mailfilter.pl line 433.
(Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
defined(@array) is deprecated at /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/shares/mailfilter.pl line 641.
(Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
creating db /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc/maps/b2g ...done.
creating db /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc/maps/g2b ...done.
creating db /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc/maps/lunar ...done.
Creating UTF-8 locales...
langconv ar_AE.CP1256 -> ar_AE.UTF-8
srcdir /var/www/data/openwebmail/javascript/htmlarea.openwebmail/popups/ar_AE.CP1256 doesn't exist at /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/.openwebmail-tool.pl line 556.
It should be obvious but I do not find where I may "omit the defined"
I add this questions to this thread which is the subject, as a newcomer I didnt dare to create a new thread.
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