On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Eric Wagar wrote:
I have an Apache web server with a few virtual hosts. The ftp is handled by proftpd, and I have multiple users defined. These users have their own uid and gid. The problem comes when Apache is uid apache and need to write to the said directory.
I am wondering what other people have done to deal with this. Do people just set all the ftp users uid/gid to the same as the Apache uid/gid on the system? Obviously this would be an ok solution because apache uid/gid != root.
What are the other ways you guys have dealth with this?
You can add apache to a group/the groups that own the directory in question, you could change the group ownership of the directory to the apache group, and make it group writable. Or you could create a group to own the directory, and make all necessary users (including apache) members of that group.