[pmwiki-users] pmwiki upload 'world write' always set

[Ben Wilson]

I'm just trying to condense the commands needed to do Pm's fix for
those who may want to put this into a shell script. You may not need
the sudo, but in case you do I provide them.

chown -R (webuser) wiki.d uploads
sudo chmod 2775 wiki.d uploads
find wiki.d -type f|xargs sudo chmod 664
find uploads -type f|xargs sudo chmod 664

If somebody thinks this is worth documenting, please feel free.

Ben

On 4/26/07, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 06:24:38PM -0500, Paul Carew wrote:
> > Hello Patrick,
> > Thanks for the reply. The files ends up being owned by 'apache'. We have
> > added apache to the 'webadmin' group (the owner of the web directory tree
> > that contains the pmwiki). We had to do this so that apache could 'write'
> > the file in the first place.
>
> If you followed the standard PmWiki installation steps,
> you shouldn't have needed to add apache to the 'webadmin'
> group.  So, something else occurred here.
>
> My suggestion at this point would be to do the following:
>
> 1.  Make sure you have pmwiki.php without any modifications.
>
> 2.  Make sure the group ownership of wiki.d/ and its parent
>     directory is 'webadmin' .
>
> 3.  Change the permissions on wiki.d/ to be 2775.  This will
>     cause the directory to have rwxrwsr-x permissions.  Any
>     files created in this directory will end up being in
>     the 'webadmin' group, which means that the webadmin
>     account will still be able to manipulate the files.
>
> 4.  Change the group ownership of any existing files in wiki.d/
>     to be 'webadmin', and set all of the files to have 664
>     (rw-rw-r--) permissions.
>
> That should eliminate the need for world write permissions
> on files in wiki.d/ .  If you have uploads enabled, you'll
> want to do a similar process for the uploads/ directory
> and any of its subdirectories.
>
> Doing the above brings you to the same configuration that
> would occur by following step 3b in PmWiki's installation
> instructions ( http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Installation ).
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Pm
>
> >
>
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