Re: Where does 'www-data' come from?

[Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>]

"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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