dubious file permisssion recommendation in INSTALL_SHARED
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 12:37 pm
Hi,
in Your docs/INSTALL_SHARED document, You advise people to do the following:
Giving write permissions to 'others' is certainly not needed, especially since You already assume the users are members of group 'www'.
IMHO, the description should read
so the user can change his files, if he wants to, and the web server has access to all the stuff it needs.
Regards,
Harald
in Your docs/INSTALL_SHARED document, You advise people to do the following:
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$ chown -R tom.www /home/www/tom.s9yblogs.org/htdocs/*
$ chmod go+rwx /home/www/j.s9yblogs.org/htdocs
$ chmod go+rwx /home/www/j.s9yblogs.org/htdocs/uploads/
IMHO, the description should read
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$ chown -R tom.www /home/www/tom.s9yblogs.org/htdocs/*
$ chmod ug+rwx /home/www/j.s9yblogs.org/htdocs
$ chmod ug+rwx /home/www/j.s9yblogs.org/htdocs/uploads/
Regards,
Harald