httpd fails to set UID

2007-12-25 8:54:00

The general consensus was generally check nobody exists in /etc/passwd and

nogroup exists in /etc/group. I'm sorry, I should have said that I had already

done this. Harold March gave me a clue however by saying httpd was trying

to set UID and GID to 65534. It wasn't because both nobody and nogroup were

set to -2 in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. Strange, this was the case on

every one of our Unix machines. When I RTFM it says valid UID and GID values

are 0-65535. I changed the values to what they should have been (65534) and

this fixed the problem. I have no idea why these values were set to -2, they

have been that for as long as I can remember.

Regards

Mick

Thanks to:-

Harold March <MARCH@mtl.marconi.ca>

Mark Allyn (206) 860-9454 <allyn@allyn.com>

Ashwin P. Rao <ashwin@cadence.com>

Sergey Gribov <sergey@venus.compugen.co.il>

Alan K.K. Kong <kkkong@ee.cuhk.hk>

My original post:-

Sun Managers,

I've just installed a CERN httpd binary on to a SPARC 2 running

SunOS 4.1.1. I've setup a config file, which I include below, much as

the template for a normal standalone server included with the binary.

################# httpd configuration file #################

ServerRoot /WWW

HostName enginfo.itl.co.uk

ServerType StandAlone

PidFile /etc/httpd-pid

Port 80

UserId nobody

GroupId nogroup

AccessLog /var/adm/httpd-log

ErrorLog /var/adm/httpd-errors

LogFormat Common

LogTime LocalTime

UserDir WWW

Pass /* /WWW/*

############################################################

Everthing appears to be working fine except that I get the following

errors appearing in the error log every time an http request is made

to the server.

[20/Feb/1995:08:57:37 +0000] [OK] [host: porsche.itl.co.uk] Failed to set group id to -2

[20/Feb/1995:08:57:37 +0000] [OK] [host: porsche.itl.co.uk] Failed to set user id to -2

httpd is running as root. The binary I downloaded was listed for

SunOS 4.1.3, could this be the problem ?

Can anyone throw any light on this for me.

Thanks in advance.

Mick

Mick Pope
Research & Development

Wilj International Ltd, Internet: mdp@wilj.itl.co.uk
Viking House, Phone: +44 1233 638383
Ellingham Way Fax: +44 1233 627553
Ashford,
Kent, TN23 6NF
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