Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 httpd cgi script file not able to write to /tmp

2017-01-20 Thread Gary Stainburn
Something (possibly systemd) creates per user / per process (?) /tmp directories. These are actually held in /tmp/systemd-private-* Gary On Friday 20 January 2017 15:19:52 Jerry Geis wrote: > Fun fact... If I echo my data to the same directory as the script is > located in it works. But it d

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 httpd cgi script file not able to write to /tmp

2017-01-20 Thread David Both
The behavior you describe should be normal for any web server, as it is for Apache, which is what I use. It is a security feature that prevents malicious attacks on a web server from writing malware anywhere else in the filesystem and possibly gaining elevated privileges. On 01/20/2017 10:19

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 httpd cgi script file not able to write to /tmp

2017-01-20 Thread Jerry Geis
Fun fact... If I echo my data to the same directory as the script is located in it works. But it does not allow writing to /tmp I'm good with that. Thanks, Jerry On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi - Thanks for the reply. > > I actually have selinux disabled on this box. >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 httpd cgi script file not able to write to /tmp

2017-01-20 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi - Thanks for the reply. I actually have selinux disabled on this box. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 httpd cgi script file not able to write to /tmp

2017-01-20 Thread Leroy Tennison
Just a speculation but /tmp is usually world-writable which leads me to suspect SELinux (or AppArmor with other distros.) - Original Message - From: "Jerry Geis" To: "CentOS mailing list" Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 7:29:02 AM Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 7 httpd

[CentOS] CentOS 7 httpd cgi script file not able to write to /tmp

2017-01-20 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I have a script running in httpd. The script runs fine. However I want to "echo" some debug information into a file. The file is never created. Is there some security thing that has to be enable/disabled to allow a script in httpd to write to a file? Thanks, Jerry __