Re: Where does 'www-data' come from?
"Bart" == Bart Schuller <schuller@lunatech.com> writes:
Bart> Is www-data the uid of the web server process or is it the owner
Bart> of the served files?
Hm, good point. At the moment its both -- /var/www is installed as
www-data.www-data, but other packages like MRTG make subdirs owned by
root. And CGI is off in /usr/lib/cgi-bin, root.root per Policy.
Might be a good idea to change the default ownerships.
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