[Xymon] Hobbit Permission Problem

[FORD Alan]

Not sure what Linux you are running, but have you looked SELinux This could be causing you your access issues.



Check this link out on ways to turn it off to see if it is the culprit.



http://www.crypt.gen.nz/selinux/disable_selinux.html





Alan




From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman
Sent: Tuesday, 29 March 2011 1:21 PM
To: Adam Goryachev
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Hobbit Permission Problem

Xymon probably isn't running as root and hence the user has no permission to read that file.

Use group permission for the file and add the Xymon user to that group.

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On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Adam Goryachev <adam at websitemanagers.com.au<mailto:adam at websitemanagers.com.au>> wrote:
Hi all,

I've got a bit of a problem across a number of machines which I'm having
some trouble working out.

Basically, the problem is my hobbit user can't display my log files:
hobbit at host:/var/log$ cat messages
cat: messages: Permission denied

However, the user has these permissions/groups
hobbit at host:/var/log$ id
uid=110(hobbit) gid=110(hobbit) groups=0(root),4(adm),110(hobbit)

The directories leading to the file have these permissions:
hobbit at host:/var/log$ ls -ld /
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Nov 19  2009 /
hobbit at host:/var/log$ ls -ld /var
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Nov 19  2009 /var
hobbit at host:/var/log$ ls -ld /var/log
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Mar 29 08:46 /var/log

The file has read permissions to the adm group of which we are a member
(above)
hobbit at host:/var/log$ ls -ld /var/log/messages
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 21353 Mar 29 13:27 /var/log/messages

Finally, here is all the info I can see on the file:
hobbit at host:/var/log$ stat /var/log/messages
 File: `/var/log/messages'
 Size: 21353           Blocks: 48         IO Block: 1048576 regular file
Device: eh/14d  Inode: 4202796     Links: 1
Access: (0640/-rw-r-----)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    4/     adm)
Access: 2011-03-28 20:21:00.000000000 +1100
Modify: 2011-03-29 13:27:00.000000000 +1100
Change: 2011-03-29 13:27:00.000000000 +1100

I'm running a fairly standard Debian lenny

The root user has no problem reading/writing the file/etc....

Any pointers would be appreciated....

Regards,
Adam
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