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Bug 444390 - net-analyzer/nagios - Directory permissions for /etc/nagios are wrong, apache can't start
Summary: net-analyzer/nagios - Directory permissions for /etc/nagios are wrong, apache...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Server (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Sysadmin Bugs
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Reported: 2012-11-23 05:01 UTC by Joseph
Modified: 2014-11-22 21:45 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Joseph 2012-11-23 05:01:36 UTC
The default "nagios" installation make dir permission: /etc/nagios:
drwxr-x---  3 nagios   nagios     4096 Nov 22 20:11 nagios

but it should be: 
drwxrwxr-x  3 nagios   nagios     4096 Nov 22 20:11 nagios

otherwise the apache can not access /etc/nagios directory

This bug dates back to 2006, it is time to fix it :-)
Here is a link to Gentoo forum:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-407334-highlight-nagios.html


Reproducible: Always




Portage 2.1.11.31 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.4, glibc-2.15-r2, 3.1.6-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.1.6-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_FX-tm-8150_Eight-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.1
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 03:00:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p37
dev-java/java-config:     2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python:          2.7.3-r2, 3.1.5, 3.2.3
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.9
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.27.1
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.1-r1
sys-apps/openrc:          0.9.8.4
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.5
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.68
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6
sys-devel/binutils:       2.22-r1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.5.4
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r3
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.4-r2 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.15-r2
Repositories: gentoo paddymac
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA googleearth PUEL dlj-1.1 Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -Os -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/fax /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa /var/spool/fax/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -Os -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/gentoo/ http://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j9 --load-average=8"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/paddymac"
SYNC="rsync://10.0.0.103/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acpi alsa amd64 apache2 bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cgi cleartype cli consolekit consolkit corefonts cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gpm gtk iconv ipv6 java jpeg kpathsea lcms ldap libnotify lock mad mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds pppd qt3support readline scanner sdl session spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg tcpd tetexspell thunar tiff truetype type1 udev udisks unicode upower usb vorbis wxwidgets x264 xcb xml xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3 php5-4" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" SANE_BACKENDS="epson2" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
Comment 1 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-11-23 09:53:03 UTC
An alternative fix is to let Apache start under the nagios user.
Comment 2 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-11-23 14:48:53 UTC
Don't even suggest that.
Comment 3 Joseph 2012-11-23 17:35:15 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> An alternative fix is to let Apache start under the nagios user.

Not a good idea :-/
Hell will break loose
Comment 4 Matthew Thode ( prometheanfire ) archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2012-11-23 17:37:10 UTC
apache use flag to set the group owner to apache? or maybe setting other to read for the required files?
Comment 5 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-11-23 17:41:24 UTC
I would be fine with a 755 on /etc/nagios and 750 on the files that contain passwords or generally private stuff, myself.

My solution has been to use ACLs, tbh, so that's not very flexible.
Comment 6 Michael Orlitzky gentoo-dev 2014-11-22 21:45:06 UTC
I believe this is fixed in the latest nagios-4.x ebuilds. Per the elog:

 * Note that your web server user requires read-only access to
 * /etc/nagios.
 * 
 * To that end, we have changed the group of /etc/nagios
 * to that of your web server user.

 blah blah blah

This works for me with the out-of-the-box nagios configuration, and /etc/nagios has mode 750, so I don't think I've given apache access to anything it shouldn't have access to (lighttpd is the same way).

If you're using some other web server, it will tell you to fix it on your own.

Please feel free to reopen if the issue is not fixed.