[Sussex] permission problem with apache2/php

[Tony Austin]

Further info;:-

> I am trying to use PHP opendir() function to access a directory in the
> filesystem but I get "Warning: opendir(/var/spool/mail/billy): failed to
> open dir: Permission denied"
>
> the directory in question is:-
>
> #ls
> drwxr-x---    8 billy    sm_billy     4096 Dec  3 12:19 billy
>

If I change this to:-

drwxr-x---    8 billy    apache     4096 Dec  3 12:19 billy

it works, so maybe I am misunderstanding how to make user "apache" a
member of group "sm_billy" as below

> I have made user apache a member of group sm_billy in /etc/group:-
>
> sm_billy::2001:apache
>
> If I change the permissions to drwxr-xr-x, I can open the directory, but I
> want to make it work without opening the permissions up to everyone.
>
> I am runing apache2 and ps aux shows it to be running as user apache.
>
> Anyone any ideas?  This doesn't look like to should be difficult at all.
>
> Regards.
>
> Tony Austin
> Gigaday Computing Limited
> http://www.gigaday.com
> tony at gigaday.com
>
>
>
> "I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling,
> which is illiterate children."
>
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> October 11, 2000
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Regards.

Tony Austin
Gigaday Computing Limited
http://www.gigaday.com
tony at gigaday.com



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