[Typo3-linux] Owner/Group settings in typo3_src and dummy packages

[Michael Stucki]

Hi Lars,

> I've installed the Typo3 LAMP package successfully, but without the
> testsite though.
> Now I want to place the typo3_src folder outside webspace and point to
> this folder from the dummysite (later a bunch of real sites of course).
> But when I untar these packages the owner and group is set to 1000 ?
> The apache user is nobody.

1000 is normally the UID of the first regular user on a system. If you
unpack the files with this user, the files will belong to him.
That's why you have to run chown after the extraction.

> Is the apache user equal to the chowned settings of the apache bin files
> (they are also nobody)? Or how is it with this?

I think this is specified in httpd.conf: Search for 'user' and 'group'
entries.

> And is it bad that the apache user is nobody?

This is standard on SuSE and some other distributions. However, on Debian
this user is called 'www-data' which seems better to me - but don't ask me
why, I just think so....

> What is the normal thing to do?

chown the files!

Cheers - michael