[Pmwiki-users] Re: Installation of PmWiki in safe mode documentation

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud
Fri Sep 24 07:48:01 CDT 2004


On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 02:03:19PM +0200, chr at home.se wrote:
> 
> What about invoking 'chown' with the recursive option?
> 	cd wikiDir; chown --recursive owner:group .
> only works for *nix of course. But 'chown' has some other neat options, 
> e.g. so that it only changes ownership of files that are owned by a 
> specific user.

Yes, but most modern versions of chown(1) also prevent a user from
changing file ownerships to userids outside of the group ownership
(and the web execution account is rarely in the user's group).  So
this tends to only work for people with superuser access.

Pm



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