[vox-tech] Apache and group permissions

Rod Roark rod at sunsetsystems.com
Fri Oct 6 14:38:38 PDT 2006


Replying to myself:

On Friday 06 October 2006 13:35, Rod Roark wrote:
> I have a very puzzling (to me) problem.  I'm working with a Mandriva
> box running Apache 2.0.54.  It runs as user nobody with its group ID
> set to -1 -- i.e. httpd.conf includes:
> 
>     User nobody
>     Group #-1

It turns out if I change it to "Group nogroup", everything works.

So is setgid(-1) supposed to disable group permissions?  I have never
seen that documented....

Rod


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