Posted by tristan@med.usyd.edu.au on 02/16/06 01:00

Its an interesting situation and we've tried the following combinations
of users, groups with x permission.

human user = A
human user group = AG
apache user = B
Apache user Group = BG
Independate Group = IG
rwx A AG
rwx B AG
rwx A BG
rwx B BG

Setting both A and B to be members of IG
rwx A IG
rwx B IG

We have also looked at the heirachy of the directories, incase there
was a setting cascading down which may have affected it, and issues
such as wether Apache was configured not to allow directory listings
just of the off chance it may affect it, wether there was something
changed in the implimentation of file and directory handling in PHP5 vs
PHP4, and is there anything particular about the Mac systems that we
might have missed which is where im at now.

Come to think of it, I did have a similar problem once before on a
Fedora box with a different application, the solution was to create an
independant group that mimicked the group that the software was under
on the original system. Though I never found out exactly why that
worked.


- Tristan

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