Re: Where does 'www-data' come from?
Edward Betts wrote:
>On Wed, 20 Jan, 1999, Brian May wrote:
>> Maybe the web files should be owned by "www-data" and the web
>> process should be owned by "www" or "httpd"? This way the
>> descriptive names continue to make sense. Practical
>> speaking, it is probably just as good to make web files
>> owned by root, however, then the name "www-data" won't
>> be the owner of any data.
>
>Would not work, the users on my machine who are aloud to edit the web pages
>are members of the www-data group, do you suggest I make them members of roo
>t?
Have PostgreSQL tables accessible by the *PostgreSQL* user `nobody', and have
the web server connect to PostgreSQL as `nobody'. (PostgreSQL users are not
(necessarily) the same as Unix logins.)
More detailed documentation for this problem is available on the bug database
for the postgresql package.
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