On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Eric Wagar wrote: > I have an Apache web server with a few virtual hosts. The ftp is handled by > proftpd, and I have multiple users defined. These users have their own uid > and gid. The problem comes when Apache is uid apache and need to write to > the said directory. > > I am wondering what other people have done to deal with this. Do people just > set all the ftp users uid/gid to the same as the Apache uid/gid on the > system? Obviously this would be an ok solution because apache uid/gid != > root. > > What are the other ways you guys have dealth with this? You can add apache to a group/the groups that own the directory in question, you could change the group ownership of the directory to the apache group, and make it group writable. Or you could create a group to own the directory, and make all necessary users (including apache) members of that group. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe
