Re: [RELEASE CANDIDATE] Apache::Test 1.03-dev

[Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>]

Rob Bloodgood wrote:
> Tuesday, June 24, 2003, 1:51:51 PM, you wrote:
> 
> JS> Rob Bloodgood <ro...@empire2.com> writes:
> 
> JS> [...]
> 
> 
>>>*** root mode: changing the fs ownership to 'nobody' (99:99)
>>>/usr/sbin/httpd -X -d /root/.cpan/build/Apache-Test-1.03/t -f
>>>/root/.cpan/build/Apache-Test-1.03/t/conf/httpd 
> 
> 
> JS> Is the docroot (/root/.cpan/.../t/httpd.conf) inside 
> JS> a directory that "nobody" can read from?  Probably
> JS> not, from the looks of it.
> 
> JS> Try moving the Apache-Test-1.03 directory to /tmp and
> JS> see if you have better luck there.
> 
> Good spot!  I changed permissions so 'nobody' could access the .cpan
> dir, and it immediately worked perfectly.  Apache::Test and
> libapreq-1.2 now installed here!

Yup, Philippe has mentioned this to me as well. When run as 'root', we do 
change the perms within the current distro dir, but we don't check whether the 
parent dirs have the read perms. I will add this check and make the program 
fail with an appropriate error if that's the case. e.g.:

The directory /root/foo/Apache-Test-1.03 is not readable by user 'nobody', 
either make sure that all the dirs up to /root/foo/Apache-Test-1.03 are 
readable by that user, or move the whole tree to some other directory (e.g. 
/tmp) or run 'make test' as non-root!

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