[TYPO3-linux] Virtual shared hosting and TYPO3: Companion programs

[Dimitri Tarassenko]

Franz,

You are describing a real issue, however some of the statements are
not fully correct, so I'll comment a bit.

On 3/17/06, Franz Holzinger <franz at fholzinger.com> wrote:
> > Now, as far as users without shell access are concerned - shell access
> > is not a requirement to use any of the above.
>
> However if the provider did not set the access rights for the FTP user
> that he can remove folders and files written by the Apache then a shell
> access will be necessary.

Not entirely true. Quite often, something like PHPShell can help you.

> Only with shell access the user can change the
> owners of his folders and files.

In Linux, only root can change the _owner_ of the file. A user,
however can change the _group_ and file access mode. Again shell being
a requirement is not entirely true, since many FTP servers support
SITE CHMOD, SITE UMASK, SITE CHGRP commands.

The main idea of your advice is correct - one should really look for a
provider with shell acess since it makes life a lot easier. It's not
an absolute necessity, though - temp_CACHED_* files can be deleted via
FTP / PHPShell as well.

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Dimitri Tarassenko