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Re: Security question for http

From: Seth Falcon <sfalcon_at_fhcrc.org>
Date: 2004-07-22 18:37:37 CEST

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 06:00:22PM +0200, santanu.misra@reuters.com
wrote:
> But for http to work I have to do a chmod '666' in the 'db' directory
> of the repository. I am running apache as 'nobody' and 'nogroup'. We
> are running other process on the server so I would not like to run
> apache as any other user(like svn)

> Is it possible to do so ? I could not find any information on the
> same.

My understanding is that you should run Apache as the user that owns the
repos. Note that you can run multiple Apache instances if you wish to
isolate Apache+svn from general web serving Apache...

+ seth

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