From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] t/lib-http/apache.conf: load mod_unixd module in apache 2.4 Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:00:45 -0500 Message-ID: <20160225220045.GA10267@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <1456426632-23257-1-git-send-email-jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Michael J Gruber , git@vger.kernel.org, Mark Strapetz , Stefan Beller , Junio C Hamano , Jacob Keller To: Jacob Keller X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 25 23:01:03 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aZ3xy-0006ee-Hx for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 23:00:58 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751665AbcBYWAy (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:00:54 -0500 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([50.56.180.127]:49423 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751623AbcBYWAx (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:00:53 -0500 Received: (qmail 26933 invoked by uid 102); 25 Feb 2016 22:00:47 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:00:47 -0500 Received: (qmail 25579 invoked by uid 107); 25 Feb 2016 22:00:57 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:00:57 -0500 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:00:45 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1456426632-23257-1-git-send-email-jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:57:11AM -0800, Jacob Keller wrote: > From: Jacob Keller > > Since 2.4, apache will fail to load unless mod_unixd is loaded in order > to drop privileges. > > Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller > --- > > I am not sure why this wasn't there already, but I am unable to run > httpd 2.4.18 without it, on Fedora 23. > > t/lib-httpd/apache.conf | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) Michael (cc'd) posted an identical patch with some more discussion back in May: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/268770 The series languished because none of the reviewers had systems that reproduced the problem, and I think there's some additional work needed to get all of the svn-over-http tests running[1]. I think this bit should be OK to take without the rest (though I like the extra discussion in the original). -Peff [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/284349