Am 14.09.2013 20:51, schrieb Matthew J. Roth:
> Please ignore my first reply.  I accidentally hit 'Send' before it was 
> complete.

i am not that slow in answers, too late

however, it will take days until my posts reach the list
due the holy grail of moderation.............

>> www-data is *debian* because on Redhat the user/groups is named "apache"
>> if you use google add your distribution to the search string!
> 
> Please explain how the specific user Apache is running as is relevant.  Is it
> only an indicator of the distribution the example is based on?  If so, are you
> saying that distributions without SELinux support cannot securely allow Apache
> to write files within DocumentRoot?
> 
>> besides that there a *two* levels to care: FS-permissions *and* SELinux
>>
>> chown apache:apache /path/to/folder/
>> chmod 770 /path/to/folder/
>>
>> http://david-latham.blogspot.co.at/2008/08/allow-httpd-apache-to-write-to-files.html
> 
> Are you saying to allow Apache write access, but to use SELinux to limit the
> directories and files it can update?  That sounds reasonable to me, but I get
> the impression that Tim had something else in mind from his very specific
> statement:
> 
>   You should NOT change ownership of /var/www/http to Apache, never do
>   that.  That's a VERY BAD THING!!!!!!

i know that because it is my job to know that
i explained it also well in my reply

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