[Twisted-Python] Re: Starting MoinMoin as nonroot Linux User

[Garrett Rolfs]

Eugene Coetzee <projects at reedflute.com> writes:

> Jp Calderone wrote:
> 
> >  Your logged in shell is running with more permissions than your
> > system is configured to allow you to have.  Perhaps someone recently
> > edited your /etc/groups file or something similar.  Logging all the
> > way out and back in
> >should give you an environment in which twistd will start up for you.
> >

Thank you for the clue.  Indeed that appears to be the problem.  I
looked at my /etc/passwd entry and I am in my own "personal" group.
My site has linux clients that authenticate against AFS.  Every user
has their own group to minimize the exposure allowing unanticipated
access to local (non-AFS) directories and files.  Anyway, back to the
main topic...  I executed the id command and noticed I am in groups
not listed in /etc/passwd.  Also, I shouldn't be in these groups
because they are "personal" groups for other users.  Hence, I have
sent an email to our internal support org.
 
> Don't know if it is a bug - or something todo with shell privileges. I
> have seen the same thing migrating recently from Slackware 9.1 to
> Slackware 10.0.
> 
> Since I'm using the same version of Twisted and Python on both
> versions of Slack (9.1 and 10.0) - logic seems to point in the
> direction of the distro or some GNU library related issue.
> 

The id command may shed some light to what is different, at least it
did for me.

Thanks for the feedback.

-Garrett Rolfs