SID-00466: System blocked after setting access rights

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.3.1	Perl version:
Category:	CategoryError	Server OS:	VMWare Packe from TWiki Debian Stable 4.0.4	Last update:	16 years ago

Hello,

I just ran into a "little" problem. I had a few problems and RCS error messages, when editing pages, so I tried to set the Access Rights correct by using SettingFileAccessRightsLinuxUnix

Since a script for my version 4.3.1 was not available, I took the latest one (4.2.X).

However, after this was done, I cannot access my Twiki anymore. Instead I get the following error message: 'Couldn't store 1986ae7f3dca9172bf5362aa36639536 into /home/httpd/twiki/working/tmp/cgisess_1986ae7f3dca9172bf5362aa36639536: Permission denied at /home/httpd/twiki/lib/TWiki/LoginManager.pm line 542.'

I am really deeply in need of a pointer here. Thanks for helping out! Christoph

-- ChristophSchmitz - 2009-08-06

Discussion and Answer

It seems like your /home/httpd/twiki/working/tmp/ directory is not owned by the webserver user. Run configure to find out the webserver user and group, then chown -R apacheuser.apachegroup twiki/working twiki/data twiki/pub (where apacheuser and apachegroup are the Apache user and group, respectively,

-- PeterThoeny - 2009-08-07

I ran the above mentioned script again. This time using the CORRECT username and usergroup from apache. (First used root:root). Now everything seems to work again.

Sorry for the panicking and thanks for the help!

-- ChristophSchmitz - 2009-08-07

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