Re: [Lxr-general] apache (httpd) on f8 vs. fc6 running LXR

[Gene Sm(i)t. <gd...@gm...>]

Malcolm Box wrote, On 02/19/2008 05:27 AM:
> On Feb 19, 2008 2:30 AM, Gene Sm(i)th <gd...@gm...> wrote:
>> To answer my own post, the reason was because the files accessed by lxr
>> were in my home directory with permission 700 and apache could not go
>> there. Pretty simple actually but not much hint from apache or lxr as to
>> what the problem was. Just was looking at the /home/me/lxr-file/
>> directory which was set to 755, I think, but was was overriden by the
>> /home/me/ setting of 700. (Didn't realize the permission are inherited
>> but I guess they are.)
> 
> Permissions aren't inherited, but apache needs to be able to traverse
> the whole path.  That requires permissions for apache on each
> directory on the path.  Otherwise the kernel will not allow the file
> to be read.
> 
> So you need apache to have permissions on /home, /home/me and /home/lxr-file
> 
> Malcolm

I created a user/group "test" and within test account I was unable to 
cat files or list files in /home/me/lxr-file (set to 755) unless I 
changed /home/me to 705 so permission seemed to be inherited for this 
simple case (unless I am missing something here).

By the way, thanks for your excellent work on LXR. I use it constantly!

-gene