Re: Apache+PHP+ftp security

Eduardo Tongson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:54:44 +0100, abend <[email protected]> wrote:
 > In order to solve my problem, my questions are:
> - Can i run apache's child processes with an arbitrary user
> (configured in a VirtualHost basis)? This solve the second problem,
> but is this a good idea?

With your requirements I dont see it being a problem.
I think you should also check out suExec with FastCGI(mod_fastcgi) for
php serving

> - Does anyone know how to do the first configuration works as
> expected? This solves the problem (safe_mode not needed).
> - any other ideas?

Have the upload directory be sgid www-data

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                                                    Eduardo Tongson     
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