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On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, jon * wrote:
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> on 10/27/99 8:13 AM, Steve Snodgrass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > I would recommend that the install process
> > attempt to discover the web server user and simply create a zero length
> > jserv.log file in the apache logs directory owned by the appropriate user.
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> Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately, this isn't as easy to do in all
> situations as you might think. Especially since I could set the permissions
> on the directory to the right owner, but you could edit your httpd.conf and
> simply change the owner and break things again. ;-( One idea I had was to
> set the directory chmod 777, but I figured someone would end up complaining
> about that as well.
Erm... I sure hope you would never consider making the Apache logs
directory writable by anyone other than trusted users, since anyone that
can write to it can easily compromise the uid that the server starts
as, as is noted in big letters in the docs...
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