http AVC

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> On 12/02/2010 12:44 PM, Tony Molloy wrote:
>> On Thursday 02 December 2010 17:37:54 m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>> Tony Molloy wrote:
>>>> On Thursday 02 December 2010 15:56:59 m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>>>> Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>>>>>> On 12/02/2010 09:35 AM, Tony Molloy wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm running http on a fully updated Centos 5 system.
<snip>
>>>>>>> I'm trying to run a cgi script from a user directory.
>>>>>
>>>>> <MVNCH>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you have httpd_suexec_disable_trans turned on?
>>>>>
>>>>> Actually, what bothers me is trying to run a .cgi from a user's
>>>>> directory. Can't you create a directory ->under the apache
>>>
>>> <Directory><- that the
>>>
>>>>> users can put scripts in for testing? (I assume that once they're
>>>>> good, they go into the real production location for .cgi.)
>>>>
>>>> Not so easily done ;-)
>>>>
>>>> This is a University environment with several hundred faculty/students
>>>> wanting to use this server to run/check assignments. So they have ftp
>>>> accounts where they can upload any scripts to their public_html
directory and
>>>> run them from there.
>>>
>>> I figured it was something like that. What I was thinking was
>>>
>>>    /var/www/html/public_cgi/<students' directories>
>>> which would put them in a *legitimate* place for apache to be happy
>>> with, and which selinux would be happy with.
>>>
>>> You *might* need to add them to a group named something like pubcgi,
>>> and make the above group acceptable to selinux and apache.
>>>
>> Interesting idea. I could give it a try next semester.
>
> It should not be necessary.  public_html labeled correctly will work.
> THe problem you are seeing is that this boolean was set causing suexec
> to not work.

You mean the group, Dan? I was thinking in terms of apache looking at
ownership of files. Glad to know that the ownership, once it's in the
correct place, isn't an selinux problem.

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