[BlueOnyx:01110] Re: PHP method for changing folder / file owner?

[Jeff Jones]

I'm due to take a holiday next week so that's going to be a bit of a  
nightmare if I can't  find some sort of workaround to this issue. So I  
am not contemplating even more extreme ideas.

I have had two further suggestions:

1) Give their server level admin account (it's not actually the  
default on called 'admin' it's an additional one I created)  'root'  
level permissions
2) Change the password of the 'root' user and give this to them (which  
means I don't give them my root password)

Are either of these suggestions possible / going to cause a problem  
with BX? Is the root user password somehow bound to the 'admin' user?

Sorry to keep posting this lame stuff, it's just I really need this  
problem to go away!

Jeff




On 22 Apr 2009, at 11:59, Jeff Jones wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Just a heads up on my situation, because we upload files via SFTP  
> and then over to BX via SAMBA shares (via the admin account) we are  
> not able to change permissions using the SFTP software.
>
> So this means that all permission changing for me has to be done  
> either via three ways:
>
> The admin interface, phpchown, or via a shell.
>
> The admin interface tickbox thingy is not quite ready yet, I'm not a  
> PHP developer so phpchown is out, so that leaves me with shell.
>
> After much inner turmoil, I finally decided I was OK to give someone  
> a 'Server Admin' level shell account on the server. Not too happy  
> about that - but I just need this problem solved as it's driving me  
> nuts.
>
> So for the last 6 months, whenever someone needs to create a  
> wordpress site - I have to stop what I am doing and do  this:
>
> (simple example)
>
> drwxrwxr-- 	admin	site1	/Home/Sites/www.bb.com/Web/
>
> I would go to /Home/Sites/www.bb.com/
>
> and then do:
>
> chown -R apache Web
> chmod -R -774 web
>
> This gets me to here:
>
> drwxrwxr-- 	apache	site1	/Home/Sites/www.bb.com/Web/
>
> This is good enough for people to install wordpress - I would then  
> manually go through and take out the world read files on sensitive  
> stuff (config.php etc).
>
> This works like a charm for *me* - however this the show stopper -  
> you have to be root to do it.
>
> The 'admin' account is unable to change the ownership of a file to  
> apache - as it's not root!!!! Arrrggh!
>
> As I really, really can not even think about giving people root  
> access - I'm sort of screwed again.
>
> It seems that every way I turn, I am unable to enable server admin  
> users the option of creating a wordpress type php site.
>
> Has anyone got any other ideas on this? How about giving the admin  
> user the rights to chown files to apache? Would that possible? Is  
> that bad?!?!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
>
> On 17 Apr 2009, at 16:22, Michael Stauber wrote:
>
>> Hi Jeff,
>>
>>> I know there was talk of some sort of tickbox / permissions fixer -
>>> but in the meantime can anyone think of another way I can get around
>>> this?
>>
>> It'll be added to BlueOnyx sometime this weekend.
>>
>> -- 
>> With best regards
>>
>> Michael Stauber
>>
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