[users@httpd] giving write permissions to apache user on some folders in document root

2011-02-03 Thread James Godrej
Hi, I am trying to get a few Content Management Systems up and running. But I have security concerns with respect to them 1) please see following link http://www.dokeos.com/doc/installation_guide.html section 2 says The following directories need to be readable, writeable and executable for

Re: [users@httpd] giving write permissions to apache user on some folders in document root

2011-02-03 Thread Scott Gifford
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:48 PM, James Godrej jamesgod...@yahoo.in wrote: [ ... ] I am not at all convinced by the idea of giving permissions to read,write and execute as these Learning Management Systems say. Let me know what you people have to say? What is the best practise in such