Re: comments plugin...slow?

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 22:35 -0400, Joe Gregorio wrote:
> gabor wrote:
> ...
> > for now i am fighting with a permission problem...
> > 
> > i am not a root on the server where i have pyblosxom...
> > 
> > and the comment files (same problem with xml-rpc blogging) 
> > get created as owner:apache, group:apache...
> > so i basically cannot read them when logged into the server using
> > ssh :))
> > 
> > for now i tried to give the logfiles o+r and o+w, with
> > doing os.chmod(commentfile,0666),but it seems to be not the real
> > solution...
> > 
> > how do you solve this?
> 
> One way to solve this is to run
> your scripts under suExec[1]. This feature
> of Apache runs your CGI scripts with your
> user ID, so files created by the CGI script
> will be owned by you. For me it was just a
> matter of asking my hosting provider to
> turn it on.
> 
> Warning: if you do get suExec turned on
> you may need to change some of your
> file permissions. suExec is pretty paranoid
> about permissions and will not run your CGI
> unless it passes all of its criteria.

hmmm.. i will have to persuade my admin to use it :>>

hmmm... is this not less secure than without-suexec...
basically..do you have some good argument i could tell my admin ? :)

gabor



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