Hi, all -- The way our web hosting is set up, files written by apache under a site directory tree tree have the site groupship but that directory nonetheless must be world writable.
The only answer from the host was to, yes, avoid 777 and use chown/chgrp instead. Now I can do that, but it requires root access and is beyond the capabilities (much less permissions!) of many of the site admins that we host. Is there any conventional wisdom regarding setting up dirs for writing files by apache? I have yet to test and see if a php script running "here" in site 21 can look inside the dir tree "there" for site22 and if locking down 'other' perms will break anything else, and I am playing with ideas of a separate apache or httpd directory with perms open ough to write so that I can create it once as part of starup and not bother again, but I'm still on very fresh ground. I can't believe I'm the only one to have run across this problem :-) What do you all do? TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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