Jay Paulson wrote:
Jay Paulson wrote:
Yet another file permissions question! :)
I have my file permissions set up so that each local user who is in
the same group when they create a file it becomes group writable.
However, even after I add apache into the same group that the local
users are in (in this case the www group) and upload a file through a
browser it doesn't make the file group writable. How do I configure
FC3 to make apache write files to the file system that are group
writable (664)?
Try adding a line:
umask 002
to /etc/sysconfig/httpd and then restart httpd
Paul.
I also found that in the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file you can change
the group apache runs as from apache to www (or whatever group you
want). Then start up /etc/init.d/httpd as root for it to take effect
(at least that what it says in the httpd.conf file).
My question now is which is the better way?
I'll have to try both ways. :)
The two things are completely different.
Changing the group in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf just changes group that
apache runs as. It will not affect the permission bits of files created
by the web server in any way, only the GID of those files (if you're
using the SGID bit on a directory, the GID of newly-created files will
be the same as the directory, otherwise, the GID of the running process).
Be careful about the UID/GID you run httpd as, and the
UID/GID/permissions of the files on your system. Security-wise, the
httpd should run with just enough permissions to be able to function
correctly, i.e. it should not be able to write to most files, just read
the files it's serving and write to files/directories that you want to
be able to upload to.
Changing the umask to 002 will mean that newly-created files will have
write permissions set for the UID and GID of the file.
Paul.
