[TriLUG] When you touch it, it's STICKY...

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:38:41 -0500, James Brigman <jbrigman at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> Boys, boys! Please..."permishions"??? privilages???
> 
> You guys are killin' me here with this talk of "permishions" (surely
> that was an INTENTIONAL misspelling, right? ;-)... looky here:
> 
> [bill at thffffpt ~]# ls -al | grep test
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root apache   4096 Mar 25 11:26 test
> 
> [bill at thffffpt ~]# chmod 2775 test
> 
> [bill at thffffpt ~]# ls -al | grep test
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root apache   4096 Mar 25 11:26 test
> 
> [bill at thffffpt ~]# cd test
> [bill at thffffpt test]# touch blahblah
> 
> [bill at thffffpt test]# ls -al
> total 20
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root apache 4096 Mar 25 11:27 .
> drwxr-x---  37 root root   4096 Mar 25 11:26 ..
> -rw-r--r--   1 root apache    0 Mar 25 11:27 blahblah
> 
> Try it...tastes great, less filling....
> 
> JKB

I see one problem right away.  The parent 
directory of test is only readable by the user
and group root, not by anyone else.  The entire
path to the directory must be readable by apache
for apache to be able to get to it.

Tanner

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