Bug 1312709

Summary:	ejabberd does not start with permission denied
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Randy Barlow <rbarlow>
Component:	ejabberd	Assignee:	Randy Barlow <rbarlow>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	24	CC:	erlang, jeremy, lemenkov, martin, rbarlow
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Fixed In Version:	ejabberd-16.01-3.fc24	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2016-02-29 13:29:11 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Randy Barlow 2016-02-29 02:00:37 UTC

This is very likely my fault as I adjusted some of the patches that changed default permissions in the upgrade from 14.07 to 16.01. It seems that ejabberd does not start in Fedora 24 (and very likely Rawhide as well):

$ sudo -u ejabberd /usr/bin/bash /usr/bin/ejabberdctl --config /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.yml --ctl-config /etc/ejabberd/ejabberdctl.cfg --logs "/var/log/ejabberd" --spool "/var/lib/ejabberd" start
/usr/bin/bash: /usr/bin/ejabberdctl: Permission denied
$ ls -lah /usr/bin/ejabberdctl 
-r-xr-x---. 1 root root 16K Feb 19 23:06 /usr/bin/ejabberdctl

The problem seems to be that the ejabberd user does not have permission to execute ejabberdctl.

Comment 1 Randy Barlow 2016-02-29 03:23:53 UTC

This is what that executable looks like on my F22 host:

$ ls -lah /usr/bin/ejabberdctl 
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 13K Nov 14  2014 /usr/bin/ejabberdctl

I will fix this by restoring the permissions to those values.