Re: Where does 'www-data' come from?
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 07:36:43PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> 1. web files owned by www-data:www-data (ie no group change), and the
> web process executed by www:www (for instance). There is no need for
> users to be members of root. This would require an extra UID and GID.
But this won't allow regular users to change the web files either?
> 2. I was thinking that it would be even simpler to make web files
> owned by root:www-data (ie still no group change), as I consider
> groups to be completely seperate to users, and this makes less users
> to maintain. This would have the advantage that the webserver could
> still be executed by www-data:root (although it might be confusing because
> this www-data would access the data and not own it). It isn't as obvious
> as 1. above though as GID!=UID.
I just use whateverusercreatedthefile.web here. Web server runs
as www-data.www-data.
Hamish
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