Permissions issue with LiveCD 1.21.3

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ekiboy69
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Permissions issue with LiveCD 1.21.3

Post by ekiboy69 »

Hello,

I think I found a permission issue in Ross' fabulous Live CD.

I have a 2 week old installation running 1.22.1 updated with the RPMs. It has been running OK for about 2 week.

Yesterday I fiddled around with the monitor settings and found out the following:

The problem is that if you alter the monitor setting via the web console, you bump into permission problem. I tried to alter FPS settings and the event name of a monitor. This results into the camera image stream not being available. I think the reason is the following:

Jun 5 08:51:36 zoneminder zma_m3[6284]: ERR [Can't open events/3/diag-r.jpg: No such file or directory]

I deleted monitor no1. I had deleted monitor no2 earlier (experimental). I created no3.

In /var/www/html/zm/events there is only the original symlink to the monitor no1 directory. The symlink is not updated according to the changes in the monitor settings.

What could cause this?
ekiboy69
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Same applies if DB is dropped and Monitors created anew

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I dropped the DB with zminit and created a new monitor. No success because:

Jun 5 09:13:42 zoneminder zmu[6617]: ERR [Can't open Kalustepiha-Zones.jpg: Permission denied]
ekiboy69
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And zms is unable to authenticate user...

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Jun 5 09:37:56 zoneminder zms[10237]: ERR [Unable to authenticate user]

I guess it would be a wise move to learn something from this...

;-)
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Post by rdmelin »

Yes I think you did find a bug. I believe these issues are gone with the newer 1.22.2 rpms. If you dont want to upgrade to the latest, then do this:

"chown apache.apache /var/www/html/zm/events"
"chown apache.apache /var/www/html/zm/images"

Im not sure what the "unable to authenticate user" error is about.
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Post by jameswilson »

it would appear its trying to stream images (zms) for a user that isnt allowed to view the particular stream you are virewing. I have never seen this from inside the web i/f though and is usally when get images from ouside the web i/f
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ekiboy69
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I'll try the new rpm's

Post by ekiboy69 »

Good to hear it sounds like a bug. Almost drove me nuts last night :roll:

I'll check out the latest rpm and see what happens.
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