How to best solve user permission issue where a Lighttpd+FastCGI app's folder is located in /root/?
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I have a Flask application on a docker solution.
I have configured lighttpd to drop to "lighttpd" user and group.
Problem is: The flask app is part of a bit larger project that's simply being copied into the container at build time. Acting as a web-gui. And this cause the flask+fastcgi solution to be owned by "root" user. And simply chowning the app's folder (and it's subfolders and files) to lighttpd:lighttpd still makes lighttpd to fail with "No Permission" error. *(And Lighttpd will understandably refuse to drop to group 0/root user permissions)*
I'm quite positive this happens because of /root/ being set to drwx------ permissions.
Is there any moderately safe advice, other than relocating the app out from the /root/ folder? Security is really not a massive concern, but solving it as securely as possible would be nice.
Could a symlink owned by lighttpd:lighttpd, placed outside of /root/ perhaps be the simplest solution? Or might that fail since it's target sits inside /root/ ? (though the actual subfolder would be chowned to lighttpd user/group)
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I have a Flask application on a docker solution.
I have configured lighttpd to drop to "lighttpd" user and group.
Problem is: The flask app is part of a bit larger project that's simply being copied into the container at build time. Acting as a web-gui. And this cause the flask+fastcgi solution to be owned by "root" user. And simply chowning the app's folder (and it's subfolders and files) to lighttpd:lighttpd still makes lighttpd to fail with "No Permission" error. *(And Lighttpd will understandably refuse to drop to group 0/root user permissions)*
I'm quite positive this happens because of /root/ being set to drwx------ permissions.
Is there any moderately safe advice, other than relocating the app out from the /root/ folder? Security is really not a massive concern, but solving it as securely as possible would be nice.
Could a symlink owned by lighttpd:lighttpd, placed outside of /root/ perhaps be the simplest solution? Or might that fail since it's target sits inside /root/ ? (though the actual subfolder would be chowned to lighttpd user/group)
linux permissions fastcgi chmod chown
asked Apr 19 at 12:41
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I have a Flask application on a docker solution.
I have configured lighttpd to drop to "lighttpd" user and group.
Problem is: The flask app is part of a bit larger project that's simply being copied into the container at build time. Acting as a web-gui. And this cause the flask+fastcgi solution to be owned by "root" user. And simply chowning the app's folder (and it's subfolders and files) to lighttpd:lighttpd still makes lighttpd to fail with "No Permission" error. *(And Lighttpd will understandably refuse to drop to group 0/root user permissions)*
I'm quite positive this happens because of /root/ being set to drwx------ permissions.
Is there any moderately safe advice, other than relocating the app out from the /root/ folder? Security is really not a massive concern, but solving it as securely as possible would be nice.
Could a symlink owned by lighttpd:lighttpd, placed outside of /root/ perhaps be the simplest solution? Or might that fail since it's target sits inside /root/ ? (though the actual subfolder would be chowned to lighttpd user/group)
linux permissions fastcgi chmod chown
asked Apr 19 at 12:41
DhP
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I have a Flask application on a docker solution.
I have configured lighttpd to drop to "lighttpd" user and group.
Problem is: The flask app is part of a bit larger project that's simply being copied into the container at build time. Acting as a web-gui. And this cause the flask+fastcgi solution to be owned by "root" user. And simply chowning the app's folder (and it's subfolders and files) to lighttpd:lighttpd still makes lighttpd to fail with "No Permission" error. *(And Lighttpd will understandably refuse to drop to group 0/root user permissions)*
I'm quite positive this happens because of /root/ being set to drwx------ permissions.
Is there any moderately safe advice, other than relocating the app out from the /root/ folder? Security is really not a massive concern, but solving it as securely as possible would be nice.
Could a symlink owned by lighttpd:lighttpd, placed outside of /root/ perhaps be the simplest solution? Or might that fail since it's target sits inside /root/ ? (though the actual subfolder would be chowned to lighttpd user/group)
linux permissions fastcgi chmod chown
asked Apr 19 at 12:41
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