[BlueOnyx:04898] Re: Web Based Way to chown directories to Apache

[Abdul Rashid Abdullah]

Thanks Michael,

Let me know if you need a beta user for this.  It would help me out
significantly.

Regards,

Rashid


On 7/3/10 2:38 PM, "Michael Stauber" <mstauber at blueonyx.it> wrote:

> Hi Abdul,
> 
>> There are several Web Based Applications that either want directories chmod
>> 777 or chown apache.  I found overall that it is better to chown apache
>> because what the app really wants to do is upload files or create cache
>> files, etc.
>> 
>> I would like to create a safe/controlled way that a site administrator
>> could modify files
> 
> Last night I played with suPHP on BlueOnyx for CentOS6, which allows you to
> run PHP scripts with the UID of the user who owns the scripts. The general
> implementation of this already works fine on my test box and they way it is
> implemented you can enable PHP first (with the old behaviour, where it runs as
> user "apache") and on top of that you can then enable suPHP, which will run
> the scripts as the owner.
> 
> What's missing is simply a GUI page that allows to chown existing web
> directories to a chooseable siteAdmin under which suPHP files then run.
> 
> That would pretty much solve all these problems and that feature can also be
> backported to BlueOnyx on CentOS5, as it won't break anything.
> 
> Depending on how quickly I progress with the coding this new feature should be
> available in a couple of days.