On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:56:34PM -0400, Ken Januski wrote: > Steve, > > I guess I'm wondering if there's a good reason for a default of > root.root. I prefer to work as root as little as possible so hate to > become root in order to write any pages. > > Do you think www-data.www-data makes more sense? Do you know of a reason > it's not www-data.www-data to begin with? www-data:www-data is an astoundingly bad idea since apache runs as www-data:www-data. IOW, apache would be able to write to the files (unless of course you chmod u-w the files (but why?)) This gets even worse when you think about cgi scripts. Cheers, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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