file permissions and ownership again

[jan_hut]

Does anyone know why all files and dirs that are installed or changed by login in, for example when modules are installed through xml, are owned by the system instead of the user? The UID and GUI for these dirs are set to "apache" rather then me, the user. I assume files are set to that as well but since I can't list them

[Hare]

Because that's just the way linux/unix hosts work. The files are saved by Apache (the server itself) so they have apache as their creator.

You can find more information in the manual. You can change the user/permissions from the modules menu.

Why does the server run as apache? Because of security issues. A more detailed answer can be googled

[jan_hut]

thanbks for the quick reply! I changed umask to 000, which seem to work on some installs, but not on all. I installed a template and it's images are viewable by ftp. I installed another one and it's images dri is not listable.......weird that it works for some installs and some not.


Changing permissions seems to be an issue.......

Couldn't change permissions on some files (Troubleshooting)