Re: Minivend error

[Frank Miedreich <miedreich@acm.org>]

******    message to minivend-users from Frank Miedreich <miedreich@acm.org>     ******

>******    message to minivend-users from hal <hal@hartcom.net>     ******
>
>Hi,
> My problem....
>I got support to install minivend .... everything belongs to "root".
>When I first started minivend, it prompted "This should not be run as
>root, would you like to start it as 'my user name here' ?" Sounded good
>so I hit enter for (Y).
>But..... It thens faults out on its config with read/write permission
>errors on /root/mvend/admin/products/database.asc ( read/write to root)-
>it goes ahead and starts.
> But the demo and such just quickly returns "server error" ( can not
>connect with the minivend stopped). I'm on a dedicated server ( without
>true root access) Apache, freebsd
> - what to do?
>In Christ
>Hal
>

Lovely!

Tell support they are stupid and should try again. If you have write access
to minivend files they have opened up the system to give you full root
access.

Depending whether minivend should be used by multiple users or only
yourself there are two ways to fix this:

Single user (you):
Everything minivend shoud be chown you:yourgroup

Multi user:
There should be a user minivend and a group mvusers. Minivend should be
installed by this user


Currently the problem is, when minivend starts as root, it would have
access to it's files, but of course would also have access to everything
else on the system. When it starts as a different user, it no longer has
access to it's own files and thus won't start properly or at all.

Frank

--
Frank Miedreich
Max-Planck-Institut fuer psychologische Forschung


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