On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Platonides<platoni...@gmail.com> wrote: > only by /root/?
Well, or otherwise not readable by the web server, like 640 root:admins. You're right that there's no reason to run a PHP script as root if you only need root DB access, of course. > Maintenance scripts shouldn't be run as root. OTOH that would be a good > method if you used a specific account eg. 'WikiAdmin'. Still, you might > get funny permissions when running scripts that deal with files. Well, when I run maintenance scripts I usually don't bother sudoing to www-data anyway, personally. Practically none of the scripts touch files. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
