Fwd: RE: [horde] RE-SEND: Horde Installation

[Mike Bydalek]

> Thanks for your reply. Must PHP be installed and configured by root
> perpetually? What if my apache web server is run by another acoount?

Generally it would be a good idea to set up PHP using root, unless another use
has write-access to libexec/  Try it, or look at http://www.php.net Once php is
installed tho, the web-server runs it.  So if Apache (or whatever) is run by
www, then www will run PHP...

It seems like your user/group associations in *nix are lacking in certain areas,
so the best way to learn is to try it.  Change to the user running your
webserver and try to install PHP according to the documentation.  Although if
your httpd-user has a shell, then that's a security issue all in itself.

-Mike


>
> Louie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Hagenbuch [mailto:chuck at horde.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:18 AM
> To: horde at lists.horde.org
> Subject: Re: [horde] RE-SEND: Horde Installation
>
>
> Quoting "Lei, Louie K" <LKLei at cbe.ab.ca>:
>
> > Can horde, imp or php be installed via a regular user account instead of
> > root? Some say it has to be installed by root. If this is the case, root
> > will automatically owns it. My rationale is -- application program should
> be
> > owned by an application account. For example, Oracle should be owned by
> dba
> > account so DBAs have control over their appls. If hodre has to be
> owned/run
> > by root, horde support will require root access, which may cause role
> > conflicts with system administrator unless the sysadmin supports the
> > application by him/herself.
>
> PHP must usually be installed and configured by root, since it interacts
> with
> your web server. Horde and IMP could easily be installed by another account,
> though.
>
> -chuck
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