permissions denied with perl/cgi script

shifter · 02-23-2010, 04:06 PM

My /usr/lib/cgi-bin/script.cgi must create a directory in my /home/myname directory, but in firefox appears:

Quote:

Software error:

Cannot mkdir: Permission denied at /usr/lib/cgi-bin/script.cgi line 17.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster (webmaster@localhost), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

What is the problem?

MBybee · 02-23-2010, 04:17 PM

Does the user executing the script have the permissions to that directory?

Also... why would a CGI script be creating a directory on an end-user's machine? (or did I just read that wrong)

shifter · 02-23-2010, 04:30 PM

cgi-bin directory has following permissions:

Quote:

ls -lh /usr/lib
.........
.........
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K 2010-02-23 22:44 cgi-bin
.........
.........

and

Quote:

root@desktop:/usr/lib/cgi-bin# ls -lh
totale 16K
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 322 2010-02-23 23:18 script.cgi
root@desktop:/usr/lib/cgi-bin#

My home direcory is /home/savio:

Quote:

root@desktop:~# ls -lh /home
totale 4,0K
drwxr-xr-x 54 savio savio 4,0K 2010-02-23 23:21 savio
root@desktop:~#

I have the same problem also when I want make a folder in /var/www directory.
In fact, if I type:

su www-data

I enter in sh shell of apache2 user/group (www-data).
I want to give to www-data user (apache2 user) permissions for make directory in specific directory.
How can solve this problem?

MBybee · 02-23-2010, 05:05 PM

So you want the apache user to have these rights to your home directory?
Well, if it is running chroot, it probably can't even get there (depending on where the chroot base directory is).

If it's not, then you can add your user group to the apache user, then give your group rights to create files in your home dir.