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[nycphp-talk] Writing a file and ownership

Tim Gales tgales at tgaconnect.com
Sat May 7 11:36:35 EDT 2005


On Saturday 07 May 2005 05:53, leam at reuel.net wrote:
> I still haven't found a good solution to this. I'm even more confused
> because it *used* to work.
...
> Any thoughts would be appreciated. I'm trying to avoid world write
> permissions and I can't use chown/chgrp because my user is not the same as
> the web server user.

> > >The shared host is Linux with the user private group so the file
> > have been written as "user:user". Until a few days ago they started to be 
> > written as  "nobody:nobody" 

"the nobody group, which usually only has one member -- nobody -- should not 
be permitted to own, or write to, any files." 

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2004/05/28/apacheckbk.html 

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