A program to identify the players:

$obj->{'q'} isa CGI
$obj->{'cfg'} isa Config::Simple

This is from a test script in my current project:

$obj->{'q'}->param('username','admin');
$obj->{'q'}->param('password','secret');

diag('The value starts as: ' . $obj->{'cfg'}->param("paths.sessions"))
+;
$obj->{'cfg'}->param("paths.sessions",'/home/hesco/sandbox/My-Project/
+t/sessions');
diag('The value ends as: ' . $obj->{'cfg'}->param("paths.sessions"));

$obj->_Authenticate();
is($obj->{'s'}->param("~logged-in"),1,'We have successfully logged in.
+');

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When run as root, it works fine, except that it puts the session file in /tmp/sessions, as my /etc/MyProject/config.ini file tells it to. However, when I run this as an unprivileged user, I get the error which follows:

# The value starts as: /tmp/sessions
# The value ends as: /home/hesco/sandbox/My-Project/t/sessions
Died attempting to flush session parameters to the file store: Permiss
+ion denied at lib/My/Project.pm line 380.

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But it would seem that my hesco user ought to be able to write to the session file store, anyway.

$ sudo ls /tmp -lht
drw-rw-r--  2 hesco www-data  104 2009-08-20 01:09 sessions

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The whole point of the $obj->{'cfg'}->param() call above is to redirect that session creation back into my home directory when this is run from a command line by me, instead of by the apache server.

Why would my Test::More::diag() tell me I have successfully reset my sessions folder, but that new value becomes unavailable to my $obj->_Authenticate() call?

How can I test this?

-- Hugh

if( $lal && $lol ) { $life++; }

In reply to Config::Simple value lost on method call, huh??? by hesco

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