Bug 671173 - Bad owner of /var/lib/awstats
Summary: Bad owner of /var/lib/awstats
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: awstats
Version: 14
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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low
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Assignee: Petr Lautrbach
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-01-20 17:03 UTC by Pierre Blavy
Modified: 2011-01-21 16:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-01-21 16:13:39 UTC
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Description Pierre Blavy 2011-01-20 17:03:02 UTC 
Description of problem:
1) Enable the ``update now'' button in awstats
2) click it --> you recieve a bad permission error
Error: Couldn't open file "/var/lib/awstats/something

How reproducible:
always

Actual results:
FIXED with : 
chown -R apache:apache /var/lib/awstats/

Expected results:
A default install of awstats rpm should set the right owner:group for the  /var/lib/awstats/ folder
Comment 1 Petr Lautrbach 2011-01-21 16:13:39 UTC 
I don't think that it's good idea to have /var/lib/awstats directory writeable for apache user by default.

The need of write permissions is documented in /etc/awstats/awstats.model.conf so admin can easily find out what is needed: 

# Warning: If you want to be able to use the "AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser"
# feature (see later), you need "Write" permissions by web server user on this
# directory (and "Modify" for Windows NTFS file systems).

AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser is set to 0 by default so default configuration will work without write permissions.

And also are other web servers than apache like lighttpd.
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