Re: [Sandweb-users] Perl 5.8.0 and logging in

[Rob H. <ro...@ro...>]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 05:15:25PM -0400, Nathan Barhorst wrote:
> Using a hash as a reference is deprecated at
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/SandWeb/Config.pm line 352.
> 
> Using a hash as a reference is deprecated at
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/SandWeb/Config.pm line 353.

These are fixed in the latest release branch (pre-RC3). We're waiting
on another (mostly cosmetic) fix to release RC3.

You can get to it normally by doing an anonymous checkout from sf.net :

CVSROOT=:pserver:cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/sandweb
cvs login
<enter>
cvs co -r release-1_0-branch sandweb

However, SourceForge seems to be having problems, so I put up a test
release (note - this is not the official RC3 release!! :)):
http://sandweb.sf.net/sandweb-1_0RC3-pre.tgz

There are alot of fixes for things that are warnings in Perl 5.8 (but
weren't for 5.6).

> Also, when I try to log in to the web, it says "Unable to write config
> file for nathanb." After I enter the "Full Name".

That's weird. What user did you run "sandweb-admin" as? 
Check the permissions on your user's directory, e.g.
/usr/local/share/sandweb/users

If it's not owned or at least read/writable by the Apache user, then
change it to be so (e.g. "chown -R www /usr/local/share/sandweb/users").

> When I checked the apache error_log file, I find this line near the
> bottom (carriage returns added for readability):

That's fixed in the latest code too. 

> 
> First off, I believe that the apache user is 'nobody', but I'm not sure.
> I'm not sure how I check this.  

ps -ef | grep httpd

That should tell you what user it's running as.

> Second, how does one su to the user nobody?  I've read from your posts
> to the previously mentioned message, and noted that I should run
> sandweb-admin as the user that apache uses to access the file.  The
> passwd file has "NP" where the password for nobody should be, but when I
> try to su nobody, and leave the password blank, it says that it is an
> invalid password.  As a hunch, I su'd to root, changed the privileges on
> the /usr/local/share/sandweb/data/passwd file so that all had read/write
> access to it (for testing purposes), but I still have the same problems.


su
<root password, enter>
su nobody

> Is there any word on whether the latest CVS entries after RC2 have fixed
> these problems?


Well, at least a few of them have.
I'm using SandWeb on Solaris 8 right now, seems to be working ok..

It's great to have other people testing though, because we get all
these issues I never run into myself :)



Thanks,
Rob