[Novalug] Permissions

Andy Tornquist andyt@afua.net
Mon Sep 1 11:21:17 EDT 2008


Is apache running as user nobody? That may explain why that had to be
done. You can check httpd.conf to see what user it is running as, The
user nobody normally has limited access so that should be fine.

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:40 AM,  <herminio.hernandezjr@gmail.com> wrote:
> My friend was tyring to install DokuWiki on Joomla CMS and said the only way it would work was to set certain file and owners permissions to "nobody". He is inquiring is there any security vulnerabilities in doing this.
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> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 00:05:01
> To: Doug Needham<sheridan3003@yahoo.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Novalug] Linux in an enterprise environment
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