Bug 77738 – apache2: apache user home set to /home/httpd

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Mark Janssen 2005-01-12 13:54:13 UTC]

The Apache user's home dir is still set to /home/httpd while this directory does not exist, causing strange errors.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Michael Stewart (vericgar) (RETIRED) 2005-01-12 21:39:20 UTC]

What strange errors are you seeing?

The apache user is a default in /etc/passwd, though I'm not sure why - the ebuild should probably add the user, and the default get taken out of /etc/passwd.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0027.html looks like it's been approved. I assume apache will move to that standard once it's implemented.

[Comment 2 Mark Janssen 2005-01-13 07:00:47 UTC]

It are errors with cacti, installed into htdocs/cacti/ - but the cronjob executes in ~apache/cacti or so (so /home/httpd/cacti which does not exist).

[Comment 3 Christian Parpart (RETIRED) 2005-01-21 22:34:14 UTC]

What about setting the home directory to somewhere inside /srv?

So, we could follow the /srv GLEP 20 some day, too. (as we should)

see: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0020.html

[Comment 4 Christian Parpart (RETIRED) 2005-02-05 01:37:27 UTC]

As of apache-1.3.33-r1 and apache-2.0.52-r3. Apache will now add the apache user and group by himself using enewuser and enewgroup commands in the ebuild. The default homedir (for now) is set to /var/www.

I'd appreciate the base-system herd, when they will remove the apache entries from /etc/passwd and /etc/group though (thanks).

[Comment 5 Michael Stewart (vericgar) (RETIRED) 2005-02-05 11:32:06 UTC]

Assigning to base-system. Our side is fixed, now it's their turn.

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2005-02-06 00:02:11 UTC]

done

[Comment 7 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) 2005-02-06 00:21:26 UTC]

*** Bug 51982 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***