Bug#570355: lighttpd: postinstst script chowns dirs to www-data:www-data

2010-03-07 Thread Stefan Bühler
Hi, the postinst script certainly should not parse the lighttpd config (could be in any shell include...); you could argue the script shouldn't modify the existing owner. Imho you should choose a different doc-root (/srv/www, ...) if you don't want to use system standards like a www-data user.

Bug#570355: lighttpd: postinstst script chowns dirs to www-data:www-data

2010-02-18 Thread Gejza Jenca
Package: lighttpd Version: 1.4.19-5+lenny1 Severity: important On my system, lighttpd runs under a non-standard user, called www-data2. The postinst script sets the ownership of several directories to www-data:www-data on every update. After this, lighttpd fails to restart, because of a