Allow my web services to write/read from "/"?

riahc3 · 09-24-2012, 03:13 AM

Hello

I wanted to use root for this but Im having other thoughts.

I want to read/write content from the "/" directory. How can I get my web service do be able to do this without "permission denied"?

Thanks

zhjim · 09-24-2012, 03:19 AM

*Bad idea*

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Originally Posted by riahc3

I wanted to use root for this but Im having other thoughts.

I want to read/write content from the "/" directory. How can I get my web service do be able to do this without "permission denied"?

*who cares*
http://timelordz.com/wiki/Apache_Sudo_Commands
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/suexec.html

fotoguy · 09-27-2012, 01:14 PM

This is a major security issue, never under any circumstances allow your web sever to read and write to the root drive. I doubt if anyone here will help you to do this, it's a *nix's admin worst nightmare.

chrism01 · 09-27-2012, 08:00 PM

Definitely NOT recommended!