[imp] Error in imp

[Steven Westbrook]

Unfortunately the error is still occurring... any thoughts anyone?

thanks,


steve westbrook

On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Rich Lafferty wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:06:05PM -0300, Martin A. Marques (martin@math.unl.edu.ar) wrote:
> > On Lun 30 Oct 2000 17:59, Steven Westbrook wrote:
> > > What do the permissions need to be?  Right now they are for the phplib
> > > directory:
> > >
> > > -rw-r--r-- root root
> > 
> > That depends. This look good, but I would change the ownership to 
> > nobody:nobody in the case of apache running as nobody with group nobody.
> 
> Er, why? Given no particular *need* for that, you *don't* want Apache
> to be able to write to the files it has to read. Since root can write
> to them no matter *who* owns them, having them owned by root is
> just fine. The intention of a 'nobody' user is that it doesn't have
> privileges. 
> 
> (As an aside, make sure that you're not sharing nobodies -- if apache
> runs as 'nobody' and the database runs as 'nobody', then you're really
> sort of circumventing the point. Best a 'nul-www' and 'nul-db' user
> instead, so that an Apache bug can't cause a database compromise and
> vice versa.)
> 
>   -Rich
> 
>