[CentOS] Using umask

Tue Jun 21 15:51:49 UTC 2011
Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com>


On 6/21/2011 8:30 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> John Hodrien wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Todd Cary wrote:
> <snip>
>>> My /var/www/html files have been manually set by me to
>>> apache/apache 774.  This allows my PHP applications to access the
>>> files, and I assume this is a "good" setting.
>>>
>>> Now, my server is connected via Samba to my desktop.  If I create
>>> a file, it is todd/todd 744, so Apache cannot access them.
>>>
>>> If PHP (Apache) creates or modifies a file, it is apache/apache
>>> 755, so I cannot access them (Write/Delete).
> <snip>
>> Either have a group that you're both a member of and have a SGID bit set
>> on the relevent directories using that gruop, or look at ACLs.
> To expand on John's cmts. I'd make you a member of the apache group -
> that's usermod -G apache todd, making it a secondary group, *not* your
> personal primary group.
>
>          mark
>
>
>
At this time, todd is a member of the apache group, however 
apache is setting permissions to 755, so todd cannot write to the 
files once apache has modified them or created them...or am I 
missing some salient point?

Todd

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