Subject: Re: [htdig3-dev] Search problems with htdig3.2.0b2
From: Geoff Hutchison (ghutchis@wso.williams.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 12 2000 - 05:59:59 PDT
At 2:41 PM +0200 4/12/00, J. op den Brouw wrote:
>It's not a good thing to have that kind of files world writable.
>Anyone that knows the path name could write rubbish into it.
>
>I presume that the web server UID is the one that has to write
>into it (as a world user). So when the DB files are all
>grouped to nobody (or another web server UID), then it doesn't
>have to be world writable.
Yes, obviously the web server UID is the one that has to write to it.
I also thought it was fixed in a snapshot, but when asked why results
were coming from the command-line and not as a CGI, it jumped to mind.
Loic is probably the person to answer this, but it also seems that
only the .weakcmpr database is the one that needs write permissions.
Why this is needed, I don't know. (I don't even really know the
purpose of the file.)
-Geoff
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