Warning when adding new account

Elizabeta

• April 12, 2019 06:12

Hello, I have a cPanel &WHM version 78.0.20 . I've started receiving the following warning when creating new cPanel accounts. They seem to function normally but I'm concerned it's something important but I can't figure out what. Copying readonly directory (/etc/skel/.mozilla); mode of its contents may not be preserved. at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/SysAccounts.pm line 444. at /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/perl/528/lib/perl5/cpanel_lib/File/Copy/Recursive.pm line 280. File::Copy::Recursive::__ANON__(__CPANEL_HIDDEN__, __CPANEL_HIDDEN__, undef) called at /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/perl/528/lib/perl5/cpanel_lib/File/Copy/Recursive.pm line 321 File::Copy::Recursive::dircopy("/etc/skel/*", "/home/posuda") called at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/SysAccounts.pm line 444 Cpanel::SysAccounts::_install_skel_dir(1046, 1048, "/home/posuda") called at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/SysAccounts.pm line 201 Cpanel::SysAccounts::add_system_user(__CPANEL_HIDDEN__, __CPANEL_HIDDEN__, __CPANEL_HIDDEN__..., __CPANEL_HIDDEN__, 1046, __CPANEL_HIDDEN__, 1048, __CPANEL_HIDDEN__, ...) called at /usr/local/cpanel/Whostmgr/Accounts/Create.pm line 1377 Whostmgr::Accounts::Create::__ANON__() called at /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/perl/528/lib/perl5/cpanel_lib/Try/Tiny.pm line 97 eval {...} called at /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/perl/528/lib/perl5/cpanel_lib/Try/Tiny.pm line 88 Try::Tiny::try(CODE(0x542d4d8), Try::Tiny::Catch=REF(0x5478428)) called at /usr/local/cpanel/Whostmgr/Accounts/Create.pm line 1382 Whostmgr::Accounts::Create::_create_system_user(HASH(0x48ad9c8)) called at /usr/local/cpanel/Whostmgr/Accounts/Create.pm line 378 eval {...} called at /usr/local/cpanel/Whostmgr/Accounts/Create.pm line 378 Whostmgr::Accounts::Create::_wwwacct("maxpark", 4, "homedir", "", "gid", "", "forcedns", 1, ...) called at /usr/local/cpanel/Whostmgr/Accounts/Create.pm line 2916 Whostmgr::Accounts::Create::__createaccount("forcedns", 1, "customip", "--Auto Assign--", "maxaddon", 3, "maxpark", 4, ...) called at /usr/local/cpanel/Whostmgr/Accounts/Create.pm line 2967 Whostmgr::Accounts::Create::_createaccount("forcedns", 1, "customip", "--Auto Assign--", "maxaddon", 3, "maxpark", 4, ...) called at whostmgr/bin/whostmgr5.pl line 730 main::wwwacct("wwwacct") called at /usr/local/cpanel/Whostmgr/Dispatch.pm line 259 Whostmgr::Dispatch::_do_call("wwwacct", HASH(0x45dd0a8), HASH(0x45dda98)) called at /usr/local/cpanel/Whostmgr/Dispatch.pm line 157 Whostmgr::Dispatch::dispatch("wwwacct", 1, ARRAY(0x45d1d50), HASH(0x45dda98)) called at whostmgr/bin/whostmgr5.pl line 264 Best regards, Elizabeta

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  cPanelLauren

  • April 15, 2019 21:14

  Hi @Elizabeta That directory isn't a standard directory and the issue is that it's read-only. If it's not a directory that is in use you may want to look at removing it otherwise you need to resolve the permissions issue with it to rectify this message. What is the output of the following: lsattr /etc/skel/
  

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  Elizabeta

  • April 18, 2019 13:33

  Hello Lauren, Thank you for your mail. I have opened a ticket. Your collegue advised me: " The /etc/skel directory on your server contains the .mozilla directory which is not recommended: --- ls -la /etc/skel/ total 28 drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 78 Nov 1 14:31 . drwxr-xr-x. 158 root root 12288 Apr 15 19:40 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18 May 22 2018 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 193 May 22 2018 .bash_profile -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 231 May 22 2018 .bashrc drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 39 Mar 16 2018 .mozilla --- The warning comes from having the .mozilla directory with read-only permissions within the /etc/skel directory (The group is Read/Execute denoted by r-x). To remove the warning you can configure the .mozilla directory within /etc/skel to be world writable (777) or remove the .mozilla directory which is only there because at some point a graphical environment was run on the server, however, this is not needed." So, I have just removed .mozilla directory and now there is no any warning when i add a new user. Thank you! Best regards, Elizabeta

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  cPanelLauren

  • April 22, 2019 15:06

  Hi @Elizabeta

  I have opened a ticket. Your collegue advised me: " The /etc/skel directory on your server contains the .mozilla directory which is not recommended:

  
  Which looks to be basically what I had recommended previously:

  That directory isn't a standard directory and the issue is that it's read-only. If it's not a directory that is in use you may want to look at removing it otherwise you need to resolve the permissions issue with it to rectify this message.

  
  I'm glad you got a confirmation that this was the correct course of action and I'm glad to hear that issue is now resolved!

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