File permissions - how to "lock" a directory
Adam Vande More
amvandemore at gmail.com
Sat Sep 29 21:59:51 UTC 2012
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com>wrote:
> I have a particularly thorny problem I'm trying to solve, but I'll bet
> FreeBSD has a solution.
>
> I'm running a webserver using suphp. It's very picky about permissions.
> It wants the web server user (www) to be the owner of all directories and
> files.
>
> Meanwhile, the site owners want to be able to update and add files to the
> site. When they update files everything is fine. When they upload new
> files, the ownership of the file is user:user instead of www:user, so
> apache can't display them.
>
> Is there a way to "lock" a directory such that all files created in that
> directory are owned by the directory owner? If not, I'll have to script
> something to change perms after uploads.
>
There is the suiddir option, see mount(8) and chmod(2).
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Adam Vande More
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