[BlueOnyx:04241] Re: cgi-bin error: access control - points to GUI error

[Larry Smith]

On Tue April 13 2010 17:24, Jim Dory wrote:
> On 4/13/2010 11:54 AM, Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc wrote:
> >> I've had a calendar (calendarscript) running on our website for years
> >> and it just stopped working (within last month or so - it was just
> >> pointed out to me) with a:
> >>
> >> "CGIWrap Error: Access Control
> >> Supplementary GID of script userid less than configured minimum"
> >> eld speed is invalid. Please check
> >> your input and try again."
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > Check the group ownership and make sure it is sitexx  and not   "users"
>
> Thanks Ken!
>
> I have the the cgi-bin directory owned by root and group as site3, which
> is the site with the web presence.
> The calendar scripts and directory are owned by site3admin and group
> site3. I did try it with cgi-bin owned by site3admin but made no
> difference. In the vhosts conf file for site3, the ServerAdmin was set
> as admin. I thought that might be the problem (though it all worked
> before) so set it as site3admin and restarted httpd. But it made no
> difference in this problem.
>
> I'm able to manage the website as user site3admin, which is set in the
> GUI as the site's admin. I'm not getting any errors in the
> /var/log/httpd/error.log file when trying to access that calendar.
>
> cheers, Jim

If I am not mistaken, it is the script itself (calendar or cgi or perl) that
must be owned by a user other than admin or root.  I have run into
the similar problem with scripts (cgi) and changing the ownership of
the script(s) to a user that has cgi permission generally fixes it.

-- 
Larry Smith
lesmith at ecsis.net