Re: [CentOS] user nobody can't access file

2015-02-04 Thread Lars Hecking
Tim Dunphy writes: Hey guys, I need to give the 'nobody' user (which is what our apache runs as) no password access to a file, via sudo. This is what I've tried: In addition to all other comments so far, 'nobody' is a bad choice for httpd. If this is your distro's default, it's a bad

Re: [CentOS] user nobody can't access file

2015-02-03 Thread Ashish Yadav
Hi, On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:57 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 2/3/2015 2:32 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: -bash-3.2$ php /var/www/qa/launchpadnew/site/ftp_check.php [sudo] password for nobody: In sudoers file, you have to provide the whole path of the php command to execute any

[CentOS] user nobody can't access file

2015-02-03 Thread Tim Dunphy
Hey guys, I need to give the 'nobody' user (which is what our apache runs as) no password access to a file, via sudo. This is what I've tried: nobody ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /var/www/qa/launchpadnew/site/ftp_check.php But if I become the nobody user and try to access the file, it tries to

Re: [CentOS] user nobody can't access file

2015-02-03 Thread Jeremy Hoel
try sudo php /var/www/qa/launchpadnew/site/ftp_check.php and sudo /var/www/qa/launchpadnew/site/ftp_check.php You're giving the user the ability to run /var/www/qa/launchpadnew/site/ftp_check.php but not necessarily php. Your script might not need it, so try it each way. And, since you're

Re: [CentOS] user nobody can't access file

2015-02-03 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Tue, February 3, 2015 4:32 pm, Tim Dunphy wrote: Hey guys, I need to give the 'nobody' user (which is what our apache runs as) no password access to a file, via sudo. This is what I've tried: nobody ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /var/www/qa/launchpadnew/site/ftp_check.php But if I become

Re: [CentOS] user nobody can't access file

2015-02-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/3/2015 2:32 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: -bash-3.2$ php /var/www/qa/launchpadnew/site/ftp_check.php [sudo] password for nobody: where did sudo even come into this picture? does this ftp_check.php script fork a shell with sudo or something? sounds like a VERY bad way of doing whatever it is