[GRLUG] update change ownership/permissions?

[Dave Chiodo]

The answer to that is highly dependent on what distribution and
update/package system you are using.

And I couldn't say for sure, but I would think its certainly possible.

Generally I would suggest leaving it secured, and then using su/sudo
when you need to store/update/delete files there, but how important
that is would depend on how critical this machine and the info on it
is, who else has access to it, whether its a publically-accessible
server, etc.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Eric Beversluis
<ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> Right. My question is how it might have gotten changed, since up to,
> like today, I was able to write to it as an ordinary user. So let me ask
> the question again: Could an automatic update have gone in and changed
> the ownership of /var/www/html to root from me or from apache? Do
> updates to that kind of thing?
>
> On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 18:03 -0500, Dave Chiodo wrote:
>> If its owned by root, and set 755, the only root would be able to
>> read/write there.
>>
>> Are yuu using su/sudo to become root or were you trying to write as a
>> normal user?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:46 PM,  <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
>> > I'm suddenly having trouble saving to /var/www/html and deleting from same.
>> > Being told I do not have permission. I know I've been doing these things in the
>> > past. /var/www/html currently is owned by root and group is root. Permissions
>> > 755.
>> >
>> > Could these have been changed by an automatic update from Fedora? I can't think
>> > of any other explanation.
>> >
>> > Should owner:group be apache:apache?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
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