Re: permission denied - PHP code

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 02/24/05

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    In alt.os.linux bird <bird@village.org>:
    > bird wrote:
    >> Thank you all. I have decided to write to the SysAdmin. One more detail
    [..]

    > To those who are interested:

    Yeah, thx.;)

    > I finally got a reply from someone working at the web support dept.
    > ------------------------------
    > This is a problem we have been seeing more frequently lately. There is a
    > problem with the way the web server runs which prevents cgi scripts from
    > modifying files it does not own. In particular they must be owned by the
    > user www. Which is hard to guarantee.

    > We are working on a solution for this problem, but I can't predict how
    > quickly it will be fixed.

    Mh, the solution is to make directories you want .cgi be able to
    modify writable + SGID to the group the www user is member of. 

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