[Maintain-dev] [JIRA] Resolved: (MNT-1472) Web based "kick" activity needs write permissions

[Frederic Wenzel (JIRA)]

     [ http://bugs.osuosl.org/browse/MNT-1472?page=history ]
     
Frederic Wenzel resolved MNT-1472:
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     Assign To: Frederic Wenzel  (was: Michael Clay)
    Resolution: Fixed

The kickit module now uses sudo to run the backend stuff. Appropriate documentation on how to set up the module was put into a README file.

> Web based "kick" activity needs write permissions
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>
>          Key: MNT-1472
>          URL: http://bugs.osuosl.org/browse/MNT-1472
>      Project: Maintain
>         Type: Task
>   Components: Backend/Build Scripts, Frontend/Web Interface
>     Versions: 3.0
>     Reporter: Zack Bartel
>     Assignee: Frederic Wenzel
>      Fix For: 3.0

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> When attempting to run the backend from the web interface, the www-data user does not have the necessary permissions to write to the filesystem (ie dhcpd.conf, dhcpd.conf.bak). The only good way that I can thinkto fix this would be to grant www-data write permission to the build dir. But that seems a little insecure to me. At least mention it in the module doc. 

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