What about giving the directory they will be created inside to nobody? (i.e.
chown nobody <dir>)
On Fri, 05 May 2000, Steve Philp wrote:
| Wizaerd wrote:
| >
| > Coming from a MS background, the hardest thing I've had to deal with in
| > trying to learn Linux is the file permissions stuff. In MS, everything is
| > open until you specify permisssions for it, but in Linux it's completely
| > opposite of that. Everything is locked down until you tell it to be more
| > open. This has always been a stumbling blcok for me.
| >
| > I have Apache and PHP on my system. Apache starts as root but child
| > instances are run as nobody. In a PHP script I'm trying to make a directory
| > but am told I do not have the required permissions to do that (which would
| > mean 'nobody' doesn't have the correct access rights.).
| >
| > How do I make /home/Apache/htdocs a directory that 'nobody' can create other
| > directories in?
|
| Add "other" group permissions to the htdocs directory. Something like:
|
| chmod o+rwx
|
| should do the trick, but is NOT RECOMMENDED. Allowing the webuser to
| modify the web site is a problem just waiting to be exploited.
|
t
