tec...@protonmail.com writes: > Hi there, > > I have been using httpd for quite a while now, but after a new > project/website having to have read/write/execute permissions (unsafe, > I do realise..) I decided to: > > 1. add root to the www group, > 2. chown -R www:www /var/www/htdocs > 3. chmod -R 775 /var/www/htdocs > > Everything was running smoothly, until I was testing out the > functionality and realised I couldn't use php to write new directories > or files, so I checked the permissions and for some reason they have > all switched back to: root:daemon with permissions of 755. > > Now, I'm guessing this is a security feature in some way, but for my > purposes and he type of service I'm creating it is breaking > everything. Can someone tell me what to man page to look up for this > or something? Time is of the essence because I need this website > runing properly by tomorrow at latest. > > Many many thanks!! The issue maybe caused by syspatch which you ran. It runs mtree and sets file permissions according to /etc/mtree/4.4BSD.dist so you have to set the permissions you want in that file.
I ran into that too with a differrent service. Alf
