On Apr 3, 2007, at 4:01 AM, Gregory Houston wrote:
Should WWW be able to be the owner? If not, how do I take its
privileges
away? Root is listed as a user in MySQL, as well as myself, but WWW
is not.
Now I am afraid to create any new WordPress entries because I don't
know if
all my apps are going to start creating files with WWW as the owner
rather
than me.
Greg, the www user/group is fairly standard, as it's usually the
unprivileged user that the web server software is run as. The www
user/group is on the FreeBSD system itself, not the MySQL instance.
Any time a php script creates, edits, or removes a file, it's going
to typically be done with the www user/group.
One solution would be to ask your friend to make you a member of the
www group, which should allow you to modify/delete any files that the
scripts create. A better solution would be to setuid on the
directory, and give www temporary write access when you need to
perform an installation such that you just experienced.
HTH
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Eric F Crist
Secure Computing Networks
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