Re: [webmin-l] cron module

[Galen J. <gjo...@tr...>]

jca...@we... wrote:

>Hi Galen,
>This is actually a bug in Webmin - it doesn't apply the secondary group permissions. However, it will be fixed in the next release..
>
> - Jamie
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>-----Original Message-----
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>From:  Galen Johnson <gjo...@tr...>
>Subj:  Re: [webmin-l] cron module
>Date:  Thu 2 Mar 2006 7:33 am
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>To:  web...@li...
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>Galen Johnson wrote:
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>>Hello,
>>
>>I have a question regarding the cron module's run now option.  When 
>>you select run now, what exactly does it do?  Does it spawn the job as 
>>the user selected with only their primary group?  I only ask because 
>>we have a job set up that writes a file to a directory that has group 
>>write privs for the users...however, this group is set up as one of 
>>the user's secondary groups.  When you attempt to run the job via 
>>webmin's run now button, it fails to write the file (yet it works just 
>>fine from cron) giving a permission denied error.  Now, if I change 
>>the directory's group to the user's primary group it works as 
>>expected.  Am I missing a conguration option somewhere?  Can the "Run 
>>Now" button be tweaked in some fashion to accommodate this if it's not 
>>currently possible?  I had assumed that when webmin ran a job as 
>>another user it did the equivalent of 'su'.  Is this not the case?
>>
>>Any insight would be appreciated.
>>
>>=G=
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>Anyone have any ideas on this one?  I've noticed that some of the other 
>modules key on Primary group only and it would be helpful if webmin 
>could parse secondaries as well (I'm pretty sure there are some modules 
>that do).
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Thanks Jamie...thought I was missing something.

=G=