[symfony-users] Any good reason to execute symfony with sudo?

2010-01-07 Thread Javier Garcia
Hi, im wondering if is there any good reason to execute symfony with sudo. Javi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups symfony users group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: [symfony-users] Any good reason to execute symfony with sudo?

2010-01-07 Thread Alexandru-Emil Lupu
not quite. Chown the sf_root folder to match your user and pass. Alecs On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Javier Garcia tirengar...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, im wondering if is there any good reason to execute symfony with sudo. Javi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: [symfony-users] Any good reason to execute symfony with sudo?

2010-01-07 Thread Jacob Coby
I sometimes need to use sudo when clearing the cache or running fix-perms since apache usually runs as a different user than the owner of the directory. For the normal generator related stuff, no. On Jan 7, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Alexandru-Emil Lupu wrote: not quite. Chown the sf_root folder

Re: [symfony-users] Any good reason to execute symfony with sudo?

2010-01-07 Thread Alexandru-Emil Lupu
you can put yourself in www-data group ... :) On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Jacob Coby jc...@portallabs.com wrote: I sometimes need to use sudo when clearing the cache or running fix-perms since apache usually runs as a different user than the owner of the directory. For the normal

Re: [symfony-users] Any good reason to execute symfony with sudo?

2010-01-07 Thread Stéphane
Apache and Php needs write right to cache dir, this is why it is chmod'ed 777 using project:permissions task. You probably want apache and php read rights to read .php and other stuff, and need them write rights for cache and other dynamic-related folders (upload, etc). Before Printing, Think

Re: [symfony-users] Any good reason to execute symfony with sudo?

2010-01-07 Thread Nathan
I would only give write permissions by the user running php (most of the times www-data) to cache, log and the upload directory. All else should be read only and preferable have another user, like the deployer (nathan in my case). Also it's considered very bad practice to give a file/directory

Re: [symfony-users] Any good reason to execute symfony with sudo?

2010-01-07 Thread Lee Bolding
What Nathan said. Unless your Symfony app is using backtick, passthru, exec or similar operators to execute shell commands (that MUST be run by root [is there any?]) then you shouldn't run Symfony as root or via sudo. It's simply bad practice, and introduces many more attack vectors to