Re: repository permissions - some general security questions

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 04:02:07PM +0200, Timothee Besset wrote:
[snip]
> My problem is with the repository filesystem itself. The README
> advises to chmod 777 which give +rw to anything on the system. This is
> clearly a big hole, and blocker in my case. I want to have at least rw
> restricted to a specific group.
[snip]

The user that apache runs as needs write access to the repository. I
don't think it needs to be world writable.

-- 
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>
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