[vox-tech] Apache and group permissions

Rod Roark rod at sunsetsystems.com
Fri Oct 6 15:58:24 PDT 2006


On Friday 06 October 2006 14:38, Micah Cowan wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 13:35 -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
> > However, as you have probably guessed, the PHP script cannot read them.
> > If I "chmod o+r /var/spool/fax/doneq/q157" then it can.  If I exec the
> > "whoami" command within the script it reports "nobody", as expected.
> > I did restart Apache after updating /etc/group.
> 
> Try having it execute /usr/bin/groups as well.

With "Group #-1" in httpd.conf this returns:

    4294967295 faxgroup

As I mentioned, changing it to "Group nogroup" resolves my problem.
I have no idea why.

Rod


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