On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Clifford W. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 30 October 2008 12:55:47 Star Liu wrote: >> I use mono asp.net(a module of apache2) as the backend of my website, >> when I want to modify a file of the website, it says "permission >> denied", so i give write permission to "others" so that asp.net >> program get tha permission to write into this file. I think it's not a >> good solution, I should find out the exact user or group of >> apache(should be the same of asp.net?), then give write permission to >> only this group and user. How to get the group and username of apache? >> thanks > > The user and group are www-data, and iirc the default permissions on /var/www > do not reflect this, but it is safe to change them. > > For example I do the following: > chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www > chmod -R 660 /var/www > find /var/www -type d -exec chmod 2770 {} \; thank you, it's helpful when I want to set uniform permissions.
> Hope this helps... > -- > Thank you, > > Clifford W. Hansen > PHP Developer / Linux Administrator > > (Mobile/SMS) +27 82 883 8677 > (Fax) +27 86 503 0634 > (E-Mail/Jabber/GMail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (GPG) 0x936D6C19 > (Web) http://nighthawk.co.za/ > > "We have seen strange things today!" > > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments > -- I'm a debian user and a web developer, using XML+XSLT+AJAX+XHTML+CSS+PostgreSQL+MONO C#. I'm in City of Shanghai, China. Welcome to add my IMs! (msn) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (xmpp) [EMAIL PROTECTED] HomePage http://starliu dot 9966 dot com [It's only available when my personal machine is running, on which it's hosted.]