259694 – www-servers/cherokee runs as root by default

Bug 259694 - www-servers/cherokee runs as root by default

Summary: www-servers/cherokee runs as root by default

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Server (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	www-servers Herd (OBSOLETE)

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Reported:	2009-02-20 11:36 UTC by Wicher Minnaard
Modified:	2009-04-01 12:53 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Wicher Minnaard 2009-02-20 11:36:54 UTC

www-servers/cherokee runs as root by default (tested on cherokee-0.98.1). The ebuild does a 
        enewgroup cherokee
        enewuser cherokee -1 -1 /var/www/localhost cherokee
so I guess the intended behaviour is to run as user 'cherokee'.
Adding
        server!user = cherokee
        server!group = cherokee
to /etc/cherokee/cherokee.conf fixes this. In the default configuration, these variables are absent, causing cherokee to run as the invoking user.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Emerge cherokee-0.98.1
2. Put a textfile readable only by root in /var/www/localhost/htdocs
3. Access said file via the webserver

Actual Results:  
File contents are displayed.

Expected Results:  
File contents should not be displayed. A 403 should be displayed.

Gotcha for testing: By default, cherokee does io-caching. Fiddling with permissions with the IO-cache on gives unexpected results. Disable the cache, or restart cherokee between each test.

Comment 1 José Alberto Suárez López (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-04-01 12:53:05 UTC

Fixed in new version in CVS