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[nycphp-talk] Writing a file and ownership

leam at reuel.net leam at reuel.net
Sat Apr 30 10:36:43 EDT 2005


Well, something also dropped the execute bit on my public_html folder! Not sure it's connected but it worked earlier this morning.

*sigh*

leam


On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 10:03:35AM -0400, leam at reuel.net wrote:
> Somehow the Apache on my remote shared host has changed, I think. My form writes a new file each time it is used. The shared host is Linux with the user private group so the files have been written as "user:user". Until a few days ago they started to be written as "nobody:nobody", the user:group the apache server runs under. The issue is that I can't edit my own file, which is a problem.  ;)
> 
> Should I go back to the host and whine or is this a better security posture that I need to work around in my form-processing. Any idea what may have been changed to cause this?
> 
> ciao!
> 
> leam



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