Re: [SQL-Ledger-users] permision?

[Thomas S. <ps...@on...>]

Been through this.

Basically you have to get your permissions right, and there are four
kinds to worry about! Personally I wish some one could think of a beeter
way! Anyhoo... (1) You have to get file permissions right on the install
directory. One way to do this is to give complete access on the install
directory from top to bottom to everyone until you get it working and
then come back and make the directory structure more secure. I did this
and what I ended up with in the end is everything being owned by root
and most of the files and directories having a group the same as my web
server's username with full group permissions set. Probably not the most
secure, but not the worst either. (2) Once that's taken care of you need
to make sure your postgres postmaster user account is set up. When first
used the account has no password and needs one made as far as I can tell
(Warning: do not delete this user account!). You'll need this account
to manipulate the postgresql databases or at least to create another
user who can. That user's name and password will then need to be put
into sql-ledger account's file when you finally get to the setup.cgi
page so that sql-ledger can access the postegres database. Make sense?
(3) Then there is the .htaccess and .htpasswd files which apache uses
for security. This security is only used to protect the setup.cgi script.
These files are hidden so you need to do a 'ls -a' to see them. Anyway
you can just delete them if you trust your users or edit them to have
the correct entries. If I remember correctly there's a setting somewhere
to designate where to find the .htpasswd file for the .htaccess file.(unclear?)
Finally, (4) Within the setup.cgi page you'll also define a username
and password for getting into sql-ledger itself (other then this setup.cgi
script).

Does this help?

Someone should start compiling these emials for documentation. Is anyone
out there saving them all?

-- 
Thomas Sawyer
ps...@on... - email
(303) 285-3487 x1594 - voicemail/fax



---- Richard Eicher II <win...@ya...> wrote:
> I get a error when trying to access setup.cgi.
> What do I do to fix this. Apache is running as
> apache apache. I do not find a .htaccess file. I
> am using apache 1.3.12-25 and postgreSQL 7.0.3-2
> on Redhat 7.0.
> 
> I am sure this is something easy.
> 
> Thank you for your time,
> rick
> 
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