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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#993366'>Thanks very much. Most appreciated. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#993366'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#993366'>Dave <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#993366'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#993366'>+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#993366'>Dave McLellan, Enterprise Storage Software Engineering, EMC Corporation, 176 South St.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#993366'>Mail Stop 176-V1 1/P-36, Hopkinton, MA 01749<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#993366'>Office: 508-249-1257, FAX: 508-497-8027, Mobile: 978-500-2546, dave.mclellan@emc.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#993366'>+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#993366'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> openssl-users [mailto:openssl-users-bounces@openssl.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael Wojcik<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 22, 2015 4:16 PM<br><b>To:</b> openssl-users@openssl.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [openssl-users] missing default /usr/local/ssl/openssl.cnf causes failure on AIX, warning on all others<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>(Apologies for the top-post; Outlook does not deal properly with HTML email.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>If open, called by fopen, actually is setting EPERM, then one of the following should be true:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>- /usr/local/ssl/openssl.cnf exists but the user does not have read permission on it<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>- Either /usr/local or /usr/local/ssl exists and is a directory, but the user does not have *execute* permission on it<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#993366'>[[Dave] ] I believe this is the case; the x bit was not on /usr/local I think. I no longer have access to the host (owned by someone else). </span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#993366'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Note that *read* permission on the directories is not necessary to open a file contained therein. Read permission on a directory is only required to enumerate the directory contents (for ls, find, etc). Execute permission on a directory, on the other hand, is traversal permission, and you need traversal permission along the path to open a file.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>There are some other possibilities, such as ACLs (not commonly used in AIX, but available). Users who don't have traverse permission for /usr itself would have a hard time getting this far, so we can probably rule that out.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>A run under truss might be enlightening.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#993366'>[[Dave] ] oh yeah, </span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#993366'>I had thought of trying truss. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> openssl-users [<a href="mailto:openssl-users-bounces@openssl.org">mailto:openssl-users-bounces@openssl.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>mclellan, dave<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 22, 2015 15:00<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:openssl-users@openssl.org">openssl-users@openssl.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [openssl-users] missing default /usr/local/ssl/openssl.cnf causes failure on AIX, warning on all others<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Thank you Rich. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The sentence you couldn't understand is my bad, s/b: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'>“In fact, on some, even non-AIX hosts, permissions would suggest that the permission <b><i>error</i></b> should be returned.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Dave<o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='background:white'>This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. </span><a href="http://www.websense.com/"><span style='color:black;background:white'>www.websense.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>