Re[2]: [vps-mail] On the subject of permissions, mail & SA

[Abigail Marshall <abigail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
>> Thanks. The program in question still is balking unless I
>> set permissions on the directory to 777, but at least I am
>> starting to get a better understanding.

SW> What's the ownership of the directory? That is equally important as
SW> the permissions. [we should probably off-line this discussion
SW> now. Feel free to email me directly]

SW> Scott

Thanks - I think I've got it now. Most of the program files
had been initially created or uploaded with "root" as the
owner, but I saw that the data files are being created as
"www" as owner - so I chown/chmod the directory from:

It writes to/reads from data stored here:
/www/data#
drwxrwxrwx  4 root  username  512 Apr  8 10:18 dada

to:

drwx------  4 www  username  512 Apr  8 11:16 dada

And it now seems to be working.

So I guess the key for me is to set owners on any "cgi"
programs that I run as "www".

This is the main account on the server - no subhosts - so
the cgi is under the /www/cgi-bin directory, and I have not
done anything whatsoever to alter the httpd.conf file from
the default installation.  So there is no VirtualHost
configuration as discussed in your tutorial - hence no
assignment of user/group other than default. I have no
intention of subhosting with this particular server, because
it basically is going to be dedicated to mail handling.

Anyway, thanks for your help.

-Abigail

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