Re: changing permissions in order to write a file in Mod_perl

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Does suexec work under MP2?

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On 29 Apr 2005 at 14:48, angie ahl wrote:


> I'm sending this question to the beginners perl list and the mod_perl
> list as I'm not sure where it belongs.
> 
> In short: I'm trying to work out how to create a directory/file under
> a specific user.
> 
> This is running on MP2 on Apache2 with suexec enabled. The vhost has:
> 
>  SuexecUserGroup myuser myuser
> 
> When trying to create the file I get a permissions error.
> 
> I'm trying to create folders and files in the public_html folder who's
> perms are: drwxr-x---  4 myuser  apache   512 Apr 29 11:31 public_html
> 
> 
> The uid and gid for the folder:
> public_html: uid = 1009, gid = 1003
> 
> the perl scripts (module that's a handler in fact) uid and gid:
> Real: uid = 1004, gid = 1003 1003 1003 
> Effective: uid = 1004, gid = 674124656 1003 1003 
> 
> 
> The control Panel (Direct Admin) created the public_html folder under
> group apache, so I assume all sites will be created with that folder
> under group apache.
> 
> Other files/folders created via ftp/file upload are user and group
> myuser.
> 
> So I'd like to be able to create folders and files under user/group
> myuser and not havae to create them under group apache. so that site's
> don't have access to each others files.
> 
> So it seems my mod_perl modules are running under a different user
> than the suexec setting in httpd.conf
> 
> Do I have to open up the permissions (ie make group apache writeable
> for the folder) or is there some way I can temoprarily switch to uid
> 1009, make my files, and then switch back to 1004. Or would this be a
> really bad (crossing the beams kind of bad).
> 
> TIA
> 


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