Thanks Alexander, I had tried all the combinations and permutations of 'chmod' and 'chown', but not with the options you've listed. I'll try again shortly. Thanks again. On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 17:00, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am So, den 06.06.2004 schrieb Fedora List um 16:41: > > > I can understand the difference between 'world writable' and 'writable > > by the webserver' in concept, but how would I go about manipulating > > these variables? I've perused the 'chmod' man page, but don't know what > > to set the permissions to. > > > Stuart > > world writable for a file or directory means: chmod o=w > > If you have for instance a directory /var/www/html/test which is "chown > root:root" and it is needed that Apache is able to write into that > directory, then either you give "the world", means all others than owner > and group, write permissions by running "chmod o+w" - be critical when > doing so, because now not only the apache user can write! - or by > changing the ownership to i.e. "chown root:apache". > > So, in short: > chown means change ownership, speaking for owner and group > chgrp means change group, changes only group ownership > chmod means change permissions, where they are: u=owner, g=group, > o=others; and each is build together by 1 for execute, 2 for write, 4 > for read permission. > > Alexander >
