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Fix permissions in cPanel when getting 500 errors and Forbidden 403 errors
#! /bin/bash
#
# Date: Jan 26th 2012
# Author: Colin R.
# Revisions: Jacob "Boom Shadow" Tirey (boomshadow.net)
# Fixperms script for ServInt
#
# Fixperms script for cPanel servers running suPHP or FastCGI.
# Written for ServInt.net
# Copyright (C) 2012 Colin R.
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/
# Set verbose to null
verbose=""
#Print the help text
helptext () {
tput bold
tput setaf 2
echo "Fix perms script help:"
echo "Sets file/directory permissions to match suPHP and FastCGI schemes"
echo "USAGE: fixperms [options] -a account_name"
echo "-------"
echo "Options:"
echo "-h or --help: print this screen and exit"
echo "-v: verbose output"
echo "-all: run on all cPanel accounts"
echo "--account or -a: specify a cPanel account"
tput sgr0
exit 0
}
# Main workhorse, fix perms per account passed to it
fixperms () {
#Get account from what is passed to the function
account=$1
#Check account against cPanel users file
if ! grep $account /var/cpanel/users/*
then
tput bold
tput setaf 1
echo "Invalid cPanel account"
tput sgr0
exit 0
fi
#Make sure account isn't blank
if [ -z $account ]
then
tput bold
tput setaf 1
echo "Need an account name!"
tput sgr0
helptext
#Else, start doing work
else
tput bold
tput setaf 4
echo "Fixing perms for $account:"
tput setaf 3
echo "------------------------"
tput setaf 4
echo "Fixing website files...."
tput sgr0
#Fix individual files in public_html
find /home/$account/public_html -type d -exec chmod $verbose 755 {} \;
find /home/$account/public_html -type f | xargs -d$'\n' -r chmod $verbose 644
find /home/$account/public_html -name '*.cgi' -o -name '*.pl' | xargs -r chmod $verbose 755
chown $verbose -R $account:$account /home/$account/public_html/*
find /home/$account/* -name .htaccess -exec chown $verbose $account.$account {} \;
tput bold
tput setaf 4
echo "Fixing public_html...."
tput sgr0
#Fix perms of public_html itself
chown $verbose $account:nobody /home/$account/public_html
chmod $verbose 750 /home/$account/public_html
#Fix subdomains that lie outside of public_html
tput setaf 3
tput bold
echo "------------------------"
tput setaf 4
echo "Fixing any domains with a document root outside of public_html...."
for SUBDOMAIN in $(grep -i document /var/cpanel/userdata/$account/* | awk '{print $2}' | grep home | grep -v public_html)
do
tput bold
tput setaf 4
echo "Fixing sub/addon domain document root $SUBDOMAIN...."
tput sgr0
find $SUBDOMAIN -type d -exec chmod $verbose 755 {} \;
find $SUBDOMAIN -type f | xargs -d$'\n' -r chmod $verbose 644
find $SUBDOMAIN -name '*.cgi' -o -name '*.pl' | xargs -r chmod $verbose 755
chown $verbose -R $account:$account $SUBDOMAIN
find $SUBDOMAIN -name .htaccess -exec chown $verbose $account.$account {} \;
done
#Finished
tput bold
tput setaf 3
echo "Finished!"
echo "------------------------"
printf "\n\n"
tput sgr0
fi
return 0
}
#Parses all users through cPanel's users file
all () {
cd /var/cpanel/users
for user in *
do
fixperms $user
done
}
#Main function, switches options passed to it
case "$1" in
-h) helptext
;;
--help) helptext
;;
-v) verbose="-v"
case "$2" in
-all) all
;;
--account) fixperms "$3"
;;
-a) fixperms "$3"
;;
*) tput bold
tput setaf 1
echo "Invalid Option!"
helptext
;;
esac
;;
-all) all
;;
--account) fixperms "$2"
;;
-a) fixperms "$2"
;;
*)
tput bold
tput setaf 1
echo "Invalid Option!"
helptext
;;
esac
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