Hello Technical, On Sunday, January 04, 2004, Technical wrote... > "Find out what user your webserver is running as. For Apache: User > webusername in httpd.conf. Give the data directory to the webserver user > and make sure others do not write there:
> chown -R webusername data > chmod go-w data " > My questions are: > 1. what/where is the "data" directory? Whatever you set in the data variable in the configuration file. > 2. which user should be owner? Er... Read the instructions you pasted > 3. which group should be owner? This really doesn't matter too much. > 4. what is the effectice permission settings (777, 731, 730, etc) Not 777... Try 600, that should be plenty as Apache will be the owner of the directory anyway. Of course, if you want to be able to read/modify the preference files, you'll have to adjust the rules. For example, changing group ownership of the folder to your ownership, then setting the sticky group bit so that all files created in there are group owned by your group too, then use something like 660. You'll have to tweak some SM code too if you want to do that. -- Jonathan Angliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
