The permissions are a 755: drwxr-xr-x www mailman cgi-bin
> On Jul 7, 2022, at 12:31 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull
> wrote:
>
> Software Info writes:
>
>> Just a little update. I just ran
>> # obhttpd -d -vvv -f obhttpd.conf and
>> # slowcgi -d -p /
>> to see if I could get anything that made sense show up on the screen
>> and the first error I saw was: slowcgi: execve
>> /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/: Permission denied
>> This is strange because slowcgi runs as www, obhttpd runs as www and
>> www is the owner of the cgi-bin directory. Not sure what I am missing
>> here.
>
> What are the permissions on the cgi-bin directory? Specifically, you
> need "x" on that directory. I don't know specifically about OpenBSD,
> but on macOS "Big Sur" and on a recent missing "x" means you can't
> search the directory. In that case open(2) fails with
>
> [EACCES] Search permission is denied for a component of
>the path prefix.
>
> and you'd get a 500 from the httpd. The other possibility might be
> that the cgi itself is setuid, and its owner and group don't have
> permission to search. (I don't know if that can actually happen, just
> a WAG to cover all bases I can think of.)
>
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