[freeside] Free Side Error

[Ivan Kohler]

On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 02:18:25AM -0700, Mark Wells wrote:
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> On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Ivan Kohler wrote:
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> > > &FS::UID::checkruid failed at
> > > /usr/local/fs-1.2.1/htdocs/edit/process/part_svc.cgi line 59 
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> > > Is there something I've missed?
> > 
> > The script is not setuid freeside,
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> But you said the setuid flag only affects euid, not uid.  What's failing
> here is checkruid, to which setuid doesn't apply.  This shouldn't work.

The ruid and the euid have already been swapped at this point.

> > Perhaps you should try one of the other ways of running the scripts as the
> > Freeside user?
> 
> I think that's what it would take.  Either you use Perl to set the real
> uid to the effective uid, or you run your whole web server as the Freeside
> user.

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