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Re: Config files which are writable by www-data



Am 2008-02-09 10:09:13, schrieb Roland Gruber:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am the maintainer of ldap-account-manager and got bug 462192.
> 
> The problem is that my application provides a set of default templates
> for user creation. These files must be editable via the application
> itself and therefore reside in /var/ldap-account-manager.
> But the files are overwritten on every package installation because they
> are not treated as config files in Debian's sense.
> 
> Now I think about moving the files to /etc. But Debian policy sais that
> files in /etc should be owned by root and writable only by the user.
> 
> So what can I do? Would it be ok to assign these files to group www-data
> and allow the group write access? Or would it be better to own them by
> www-data and not root?

Was there not a "debian/conffiles" or something similar?

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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