Applying the attached patch to the extender script almost works. It
chown to www-data for many of the installed files.
However, ancillary files such as foo,v and .changes still get written as
root, and this eventually leads to problems (e.g., editing unrelated
pages is impossible because of access problems with .changes). I've
manually changed the ownership of some of those files.
Running the installer as www-data doesn't work, because it lacks
sufficient permissions.
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*** /home/ross/download/twiki/extender.pl.txt Tue Nov 25 10:16:36 2008
--- /var/lib/twiki/tools/extender.pl Tue Nov 25 10:21:32 2008
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*** 843,846 ****
--- 843,851 ----
chmod( oct($MANIFEST->{$file}), $target ) ||
print STDERR "WARNING: cannot set permissions on $target: $!\n";
+ # RB change
+ my ($login,$pass,$uid,$gid) = getpwnam("www-data")
+ or die "www-data not in passwd file";
+ chown $uid, $gid, $target;
+
}
}
