[cgiwrap-users] RE: cgiwrap

[Nathan N. <nn...@um...>]

You probably configured cgiwrap with something bogus for the cgi-dir
configuration option.

I suggest you contact a local system administrator. As far as the uid
error, read the docs, that is a configuration option, and the default is
that way intentionally, it is extremely dangerous to put cgi scripts in
for 'root' if you are not knowledgeable enough to write them securely. 

-- Nathan

On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 16:10, Captain Zod wrote:
> I got around my problems by creating subdirectories in where the cgiwrap 
> was thinking the cgi-bin should be. I tested this setup with a regular user 
> and that works. I tried to recreate this for user root. So I created 
> /root/public_html/cgi-bin, and I am getting an access control error! Do yo 
> know what this is about?
> 
> CGIWrap Error: Access Control
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----
> 
> CGIWrap access control mechanism denied execution of this script for the 
> following reason:
> 
> UID of script userid less than configured minimum
> 
> 
> thx,
> 
> zod
> 
> 
> 
> --On Friday, May 31, 2002 3:08 PM -0500 "Neulinger, Nathan" <nn...@um...> 
> wrote:
> 
> > In that case, you should probably run your script under cgiwrapd to get
> > diagnostic messages on how it is parsing the url/etc.
> >
> > -- Nathan
> >>> >
> >> > so, for the below example
> >> >
> >> > http://host/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/cgiuser/cpass.cgi
> >> >
> >> > If you are using some hack with mod_rewrite, I'd suggest
> >> asking on the
> >> > list, as I am not doing anything with that.
> >> >
> >> > -- Nathan
> >> >
> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >> > Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nn...@um...
> >> > University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
> >> > Computing Services                       Fax: (573) 341-4216
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> >> From: Captain Zod [mailto:zod...@xd...]
> >> >> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 2:56 PM
> >> >> To: Neulinger, Nathan
> >> >> Cc: zo...@xd...
> >> >> Subject: cgiwrap
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Hello,
> >> >> Sorry to bother you but I am having the common problem of
> >> >> "CGIWrap Error:
> >> >> User not found". I created:
> >> >>
> >> >> User: cgiuser
> >> >> Home: /usr/local/cgiuser
> >> >> Dirs: /usr/local/cgiuser/public_html/cig-bin
> >> >> Permissions:
> >> >> [root@mail1 local]# ls -ld cgiuser
> >> >> drwxrwxrwx    4 cgiuser  cgiuser      4096 May 31 11:44 cgiuser
> >> >> [root@mail1 local]# ls -lR cgiuser
> >> >> cgiuser:
> >> >> total 4
> >> >> drwxrwxrwx    3 cgiuser  root         4096 May 31 11:44 public_html
> >> >>
> >> >> cgiuser/public_html:
> >> >> total 4
> >> >> drwxrwxrwx    2 cgiuser  root         4096 May 31 10:26 cgi-bin
> >> >>
> >> >> cgiuser/public_html/cgi-bin:
> >> >> total 4
> >> >> -rwxrwxrwx    1 cgiuser  apache        843 May 30 13:31 cpass.cgi
> >> >>
> >> >> I am accessing my site via: //host/cgiwrap/cpass.cgi
> >> >>
> >> >> I am getting:
> >> >> CGIWrap was unable to find the user '' in the password file
> >> >> on this server.
> >> >>
> >> >> Check the URL and try again.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Server Data:
> >> >>
> >> >> Server Administrator/Contact: root@localhost
> >> >> Server Name: mail1.corp.xdrive.com
> >> >> Server Port: 80
> >> >> Server Protocol: HTTP/1.1
> >> >>
> >> >> Request Data:
> >> >>
> >> >> User Agent/Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01;
> >> >> Windows NT 5.0)
> >> >> Request Method: GET
> >> >> Remote Address: 66.27.179.24
> >> >> Remote Port: 3476
> >> >> Query String: user=cgiuser&script=cpass.cgi
> >> >> Extra Path Info: /
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Is there any apache modification I need to make? I am running:
> >> >> Apache 1.3.20-16
> >> >> CGIWrapper 3.7.1
> >> >>
> >> >> thx,
> >> >>
> >> >> zod
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> 
> 
-- 


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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nn...@um...
University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
Computing Services                       Fax: (573) 341-4216