egroupware etemplate/doc directory not correctly detected

[nils]

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
from 2009-09-14

installing works fine, during the setup there is this error:
This might take a while, please wait ...
ErrorChecking file-permissions of .././etemplate/doc for not world writable:
.././etemplate/doc does not exist !!!

but:

nils@kfunambol:~$ locate etemplate/doc
/usr/share/egroupware/etemplate/doc
nils@kfunambol:~$ ll /usr/share/egroupware/etemplate/doc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 2009-09-14 09:55 /usr/share/egroupware/etemplate/doc -> ../../doc/egroupware-etemplate/
nils@kfunambol:~$ ll /usr/share/doc/egroupware-etemplate/
total 568
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-09-14 09:55 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1223 root root 45056 2009-09-14 10:34 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5780 2009-04-29 12:40 changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1222 2009-04-29 12:40 copyright
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46400 2009-04-29 12:40 dbtools.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27258 2009-04-29 12:40 etemplate.html
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-09-14 09:55 et_media/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19917 2009-04-29 12:40 gtk.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49424 2009-04-29 12:40 reference.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57869 2009-04-29 12:40 step0.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30242 2009-04-29 12:40 step1.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30303 2009-04-29 12:40 step2.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34021 2009-04-29 12:40 step3.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22168 2009-04-29 12:40 step4.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35207 2009-04-29 12:40 step5.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32697 2009-04-29 12:40 step6.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52486 2009-04-29 12:40 step7.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37393 2009-04-29 12:40 step8.jpg
nils@kfunambol:~$

...so it appears that the privs of the LINK are being checked, and that basically symlinks here are not handled correctly.

[nils (internationils)]

Submitted to egroupware at http://www.egroupware.org/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=tracker.tracker_ui.edit&tr_id=2246

[wayward4now (wayward4now)]

Would be nice to see an update of this package, with the link fixed, as the egroupware website is reporting security risks. Thanks for the hard work, Ric

[Niels Egberts (nielsegberts)]

I confirm on 9.10

[RalfBecker (ralfbecker)]

I fixed this bug upstream about a month ago:
http://www.egroupware.org/viewvc/egroupware?view=rev&revision=27969

It will be in the next maintenance and bugfix release, thought we have
none scheduled so far.

Ralf

[Immeëmosol (imme-emosol)]

Same on Lucid 10.04 RC.
Is there a maintenance and bugfix release scheduled
or is there somewhere to find an update on this information from time to time?

[Immeëmosol (imme-emosol)]

lame "fix" :

# rm /usr/share/egroupware/etemplate/doc
# cp -a /usr/share/doc/egroupware-etemplate/ /usr/share/egroupware/etemplate/doc
# rm -r /usr/share/doc/egroupware-etemplate
# ln -s /usr/share/egroupware/etemplate/doc /usr/share/doc/egroupware-etemplate

[Michael Evans (mjevans1983)]

Better fix:

sudo editor /etc/apache2/conf.d/egroupware

Change this line to add /usr/share/doc (permissive; or have the packages it's split across added)

  php_admin_value open_basedir /usr/share/egroupware:/var/lib/egroupware:/tmp:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/doc

NOTE: You should also add whatever storage directory you are using to this path.

[jarda (jkratoch)]

Lucid Lynx (10.04.4 LTS) is still affected by this bug (egroupware package version 1.6.001+dfsg-2).