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

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

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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