Bug 22790

Summary:	Config files can't be written, chowning /usr/share/pmb to apache user fixes the problem
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Daniel Tartavel <contact>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Nicolas Lécureuil <mageia>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, ouaurelien
Version:	6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	pmb-4.2.10-1.mga6.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Daniel Tartavel 2018-03-17 13:58:06 CET

Description of problem:
PMB can't write its config files and temporay files in its directory due to the fact they are root and not to apache user

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

4.2.10

How reproducible:
Install pmb go to install page http:/localhost/pmb/tables/install.php
after configuration finished, the config files does not exits.
after making the 2 config files, pmb start but some error messages saying that it can not write to ./temp/

Comment 1 Daniel Tartavel 2018-03-17 13:59:45 CET

resolving bug in chowning /usr/share/pmb to apache user

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2018-03-17 17:19:15 CET

Assigning to the registered pmb maintainer

Assignee: bugsquad => mageia
CC: (none) => marja11
Summary: Write problems => Config files can't be written, chowning /usr/share/pmb to apache user fixes the problem

Comment 3 David Walser 2018-03-17 20:26:58 CET

What file(s) get created after the chown?  chown'ing isn't the solution for package as it should not be writing to /usr.  Symlinks should be placed there pointing to /etc where it will be writable, like what I did in the mediawiki package.

Comment 4 Daniel Tartavel 2018-03-20 21:32:01 CET

These 2 files are created during configuration:

/usr/share/pmb/includes/config.inc.php
/usr/share/pmb/opac_css/includes/opac_config.inc.php

Comment 5 Nicolas Lécureuil 2018-03-29 15:16:29 CEST

(In reply to Daniel Tartavel from comment #4)
> These 2 files are created during configuration:
> 
> /usr/share/pmb/includes/config.inc.php
> /usr/share/pmb/opac_css/includes/opac_config.inc.php


David, what do you suggest then ?

Comment 6 Daniel Tartavel 2019-04-08 12:54:16 CEST

hi,

already valid in Mageia 6

Librement,

Comment 7 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-16 23:03:11 CEST

Sorry,

Program, server or what ever software should not write data in /usr tree.
Best place is in /etc for config files and /var for variables datas.

So resolving WONTFIX, also, against a Mageia 6 EOL Bug.

Mageia 6 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-09-30. It is no longer 
maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug 
fix updates.

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Aurélien
Bugsquad Team

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => ouaurelien
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX