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Bug #42553 adding snmp support requires root access to /var/net-snmp/snmpapp.conf
Submitted: 2007-09-04 22:17 UTC Modified: 2007-09-04 22:29 UTC
From: mwm at godaddy dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: SNMP related
PHP Version: 5.2.4 OS: Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 4
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2007-09-04 22:17 UTC] mwm at godaddy dot com
Description:
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net-snmp-libs-5.1.2-11.EL4.7
net-snmp-devel-5.1.2-11.EL4.7
net-snmp-utils-5.1.2-11.EL4.7
net-snmp-5.1.2-11.EL4.7

When 5.2.4 is compiled --with-snmp (also with and without --enable-ucd-snmp-hack) permission is required to read /var/net-snmp/snmpapp.conf.  This by default is owned by root with permissions so that only root can read the files.


$ ls -la /var/net-snmp/ /var/net-snmp/snmpapp.conf
-rw-------  1 root root  675 Sep  4 12:47 /var/net-snmp/snmpapp.conf

ls: /var/net-snmp/: Permission denied

I'd rather not open up public permissions to the conf file or directory, and I certainly do not want to run this under an apache virtualhost as root. I running under Apache 2.2 as a CGI with operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 update 4.

The highest version of net-snmp provided by Redhat for RHEL4 is 5.1.

This appears in nature similar to Bug #32613, however that bug was closed.
	

Reproduce code:
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php -v as a non-root user, or a user that does not have permission to read/write to the default net-snmp path.


$ php -v
PHP 5.2.4 (cli) (built: Sep  4 2007 12:46:28)
Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies
No log handling enabled - turning on stderr logging
Cannot rename /var/net-snmp/snmpapp.conf to /var/net-snmp/snmpapp.0.conf
Cannot unlink /var/net-snmp/snmpapp.conf
read_config_store open failure on /var/net-snmp/snmpapp.conf
read_config_store open failure on /var/net-snmp/snmpapp.conf
read_config_store open failure on /var/net-snmp/snmpapp.conf


Expected result:
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I expected not to see a permission issue (read_config_store open failure) in attempting to write to the persistent file.

Actual result:
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Actual result is:
read_config_store open failure on /var/net-snmp/snmpapp.conf

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 [2007-09-04 22:29 UTC] jani@php.net
See bug #34165


 
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