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authorStefan Fritsch <sf@debian.org>2011-12-03 17:26:13 +0000
committerStefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>2012-01-02 10:37:15 +0100
commitc4b58d7024bbfa9f7f0920bb8319750fba10d538 (patch)
tree63933ff2bb7e42ac6cdb9ea1fea0a884ff47ec5f /debian
parentb120692f5cd830a753e55bb8baa5f51fe869c1d0 (diff)
downloadapache2-c4b58d7024bbfa9f7f0920bb8319750fba10d538.tar.gz
Mention dpkg-statoverride for changing permissions of suexec
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-apache/trunk/apache2@1373 01b336ce-410b-0410-9a02-a0e7f243c266
Diffstat (limited to 'debian')
-rw-r--r--debian/changelog1
-rw-r--r--debian/suexec.86
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 67f42828..648654f5 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ apache2 (2.2.21-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Fix CVE-2011-4317: Prevent unintended pattern expansion in some
reverse proxy configurations. (Similar to CVE-2011-3368, but different
attack vector.)
+ * Mention dpkg-statoverride for changing permissions of suexec. LP: #897120
* Fix broken link in docs. Closes: #650528
* Remove Tollef Fog Heen, Thom May, and Peter Samuelson from uploaders.
Thanks for your work in the past.
diff --git a/debian/suexec.8 b/debian/suexec.8
index b3e08c41..421fe90e 100644
--- a/debian/suexec.8
+++ b/debian/suexec.8
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ package.
If suexec is called by a user with name 'username', it will look into
/etc/apache2/suexec/username for configuration. If the file does not exist,
suexec will abort. By creating several config files, you can allow several
-different apache run users to use suexec.
+different apache run users to use suexec. You may need to change the
+permissions of /usr/lib/apache2/suexec with dpkg-statoverride.
.PP
The first line in the file is used as the document root (/var/www in the
standard suexec) and the second line in the file is used as the suffix that is
@@ -64,4 +65,5 @@ was built. No other action is taken.
.BR /etc/apache2/suexec/www-data
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR apache2(8) ,
-.BR /usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common/README.Debian.gz
+.BR /usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common/README.Debian.gz ,
+.BR dpkg-statoverride(8)