Permission issues in var

Bayern

• August 24, 2017 15:55

Background: I am not sure if something went wrong with update to 66 or working with a Magento installation via SSH, but here's the whole thing: Two days ago I was working on a faulty Magento 2 installation through SSH and this installation is under a local user account, though I worked with root privileges. Since it was a development environment, I ended up removing it altogether and updated WHM from 64-->66 before going to sleep. The next morning I received an email from anacron with a long list of logs skipping due to world writable permissions and immediately noticed that all three sites in my server are down with a "permission denied" issue. Then I tried to log in through SSH with no success, receiving an error "putty fatal error: network error: software caused connection abort". From WHM I could see that most of the files and directories under var/ had changed the permissions to 777, with only a few exceptions. It looks like it was mainly under var but not really in other directories. I fixed the var/empty and var/empty/sshd permissions to regain access to root and then ran these commands to fix ownership and permissions in the whole system:
for u in $(rpm -qa); do rpm --setugids $u; done

for p in $(rpm -qa); do rpm --setperms $p; done
This still did not fix the permission denied issue with the sites but changing the permission of /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php from 600 to 644 fixed it. So now I have root access again, emails work and the sites work but there are two issues remaining: [LIST]

Now it looks like the owner/permission should be fixed in everything else except var/cpanel and var/lib/mysql, these two directories still have most of the files and subdirectories with permission 777. Is there any easy way to fix the var/cpanel permissions (and the var/lib/mysql)?

the only thing that does not fully work is Installatron. I tried installing Magento via Installatron again and it quits in error while writing databases and tables & I'm looking for the cause of this. It looks like Installatron starts creating directories/tables with permissions 700/660 and this should be correct, though it ends in error

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  cPanelMichael

  • August 25, 2017 18:31

  Two days ago I was working on a faulty Magento 2 installation through SSH and this installation is under a local user account, though I worked with root privileges.

  
  Hello, Could you review the .bash_history file under the account's home directory (or in the /root directory if you used root access) and let us know the specific commands you ran? Thank you.

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  Bayern

  • August 26, 2017 18:16

  Hello, Could you review the .bash_history file under the account's home directory (or in the /root directory if you used root access) and let us know the specific commands you ran? Thank you.

  
  Well, I guess this will teach me to log in as local user instead of root in the future. Instead of changing permissions in Magento installation directory I messed up some root permissions with this command that I had run:
  chmod -Rf 777 /var/
  I cleared the installatron issue (was root/root instead of username/username in a few files in local user installation directory) but if there is a way to fix the var/cpanel permissions, I should have everything fixed. Thanks!

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  cPanelMichael

  • August 28, 2017 21:00

  Hello, We typically recommend installing the OS and cPanel on a new server and migrating the accounts to the new system when this type of issue occurs. Thank you.

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  Bayern

  • March 26, 2018 18:33

  Hello, We typically recommend installing the OS and cPanel on a new server and migrating the accounts to the new system when this type of issue occurs. Thank you.

  
  We are now moving to a new VPS on the same host and instead of performing live migration, I think we'll go with the fresh install and migration to be sure that any remaining permission issues are fixed at the same time. We will make a full backup and restore all WHM settings/cPanel accounts at the same time through "Restore a Full Backup/cpmove File". But just to be sure, this full backup/restore will not move any of the /var permissions to the new setup, but will move all accounts and settings?

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  cPanelMichael

  • March 26, 2018 19:02

  But just to be sure, this full backup/restore will not move any of the /var permissions to the new setup, but will move all accounts and settings?

  
  Hello, Yes, that's correct, however you should consider using "WHM >> Transfer Tool" to copy the accounts and review the transfer logs after the migration completes to verify there were no errors during the transfer process. There's a document you can follow at: How to Move All cPanel Accounts from One Server to Another - cPanel Knowledge Base - cPanel Documentation Thank you.

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