[TYPO3-dev] createGroup / chgrp question

[Ries van Twisk]

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> On 26.01.11 00:13, Henjo Hoeksma wrote:
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> just trying to understand some basic ownership issues:
>>
>> I found that the basicFilefunctions class tries to set the group of a
>> file/directory based on the settings in the install tool
>> ([BE][createGroup]) with chgrp() function of php.
>> In order to have this work apache should be a superuser on a system.
>> That wouldn't make much sense when thinking about security...
>
> I never used this setting, it could make sense, if the web server  
> user is in several groups (but the primary group is e.g. not the  
> group which the ftp users share with it).
>
> That's what the PHP docu states:
>
>> Only the superuser may change the group of a file arbitrarily;  
>> other users may change the group of a file to any group of which  
>> that user is a member.
>
> Thus being member of both groups would allow to execute a chgrp().
>

Henjo,

I can confirm that it works in this setup. You need to
make sure that the webserver is also member in the group
you want to change the group to.

Ries