Freeside installation problem

[Ivan Kohler]

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Hello,

Your system needs to support executing the cgi's as the freeside user.

Your system might support (safe) setuid scripts.  At least Solaris and
Linux do, and SunOS doesn't.  I'm not sure about others.  If your system
doesn't support setuid scripts (by ignoring the setuid bit), Perl should
emulate this behavior.  This is a compile time option, and I _think_ you
might have to turn it on explicitly.  On my devlopment machine (Debian
pre-2.0), the `perl-suid' package is part of the standard installation.

You have chmod'ed the files 4755, correct?

You may also want to take a look at the suExec feature of Apache, which
appears to provide similar functionality - it executes scripts as the
owner of the script (thus the setuid bit would not be needed).  I haven't
tried this myself.

On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, {/// Don Spence \} wrote:

> 
> Hello Sir,
> 	   I am very excited about your freeside project. I plan to contribute
> were I can. But I am having a problem installing. The documentation is not
> clear on a few points. I finally realized there was a list of CPAN module
> to install and did that fine. But at this point, whenever I try to run any
> of the cgi's, I get the following message in my browser:
> 
> -----
> 	Software error:
> 
> Not running setuid freeside! at
> /var/lib/httpd/htdocs/staff/freeside/edit/cust_main.cgi line 45 
> 
> Please send mail to this site's webmaster for help. 
> -----
> 
> 
> I realized that the cgi's have to be executed by freeside and I have set
> the permissions on the files and set up the account, but I don't know what
> I missed. Any assistance would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> Thank you for your time,
> Don Spence
> 
> 
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