Bug 51220

Summary:	impossible to run apache with non-root permissions
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Fernando J. Martinez <fernando>
Component:	apache	Assignee:	Joe Orton <jorton>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	jpadfield, scop
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2006-02-21 18:48:05 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Fernando J. Martinez 2001-08-08 15:44:31 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
It's impossible to run apache with non-root permissions, because it tries 
to write a semaphore in /var/run:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Ouch! ap_mm_create(1048576, "/var/run/httpd.mm.12420") failed
Error: MM: mm:core: failed to open semaphore file (Permission denied): OS: 
No such file or directory

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Mandrake 8 seems to have it solved in its package:

  apache-common-1.3.19-3mdk RPM for i586

See their changelog:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
- Changed MM_CORE_PATH to /var/apache-mm/mm instead of /var/run/mm 
    because only root can write to /var/run and we have to be able to run 
    Apache as a non-root user! 

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Log in with non root permissions
2.Try to launch apache
3.
	

Actual Results:  The apacha is not started because it tries to access some 
files or directories not permitted to a non root user

Additional info:

Comment 1 Alexandre Oliva 2002-02-24 18:54:42 UTC

I'd go ahead and suggest to make this pathname configurable in the httpd.conf
file, like all other pathnames that default to /var/run.

Meanwhile, here's a quick work-around: copy /usr/sbin/httpd elsewhere, then
change occurrences of /var/run in it to say /tmp/run (make sure it retains the
same length).  Then, create /tmp/run as the user who runs httpd and you're done.

Comment 2 Ville Skyttä 2002-06-13 18:47:02 UTC

Applies to Red Hat 7.3 too, and is pretty damn annoying.  What's the status of 
this?

Comment 3 Joe Orton 2004-09-21 10:06:47 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37233 ***

Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:48:05 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.