File Permissions

[Les Mikesell]

Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 18:40 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> I don't chown anything. Apache is in the group "user" (which is the
>> name of my user).
> 
> So you're logging in as the apache user?

I think that means there is a user named user, which in the RH/fedora 
scheme of one group per user would also be in group user and the default 
0022 umask will make everything r/w by group as well as user. So, if you 
give the home directory group rwx permissions (or at least x to access 
the contents), and add other users to the individual's group, everyone 
in the group now has full access to the files.   This scheme will work 
to give apache access to the public_html directory but may be overkill. 
You may not want apache to have write access unless you are running web 
applications that need to store data there.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com