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Thomas Wouters thomas at xs4all.net
Sun Feb 4 10:18:22 EST 2001 
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 11:48:08PM -0800, Ben Ocean wrote:

> I'm trying to install a program that requires I create an *httpd writable* 
> file. How do I do this? What does it mean to have httpd write to a file? Do 
> I need to assign httpd a passwd? Do I need to group it with root? Please 
> advise.

Unclear why you are posting it here; it's terribly off-topic, even if the
program you are installing is a Python program. Nevertheless, what you are
probably supposed to do is make a file writable for the httpd process. It
depends on your installation (and indeed, your 'brand' of httpd) what userid
and permissions the httpd process is running as, but as a wild guess, you
can use 'chmod a+w <file>' (dangerous, but sure to work) or 'chown nobody
<file>' (sometimes inconvenient, but slightly less dangerous.) If you happen
to know that httpd is running as a particular group, and noone else is in
that group, chgrp the file to that group and make it only writable for the
group, not the rest of the world: chmod g+w <file>.

For further questions I suggest you ask the author or supplier of the
program you are installing, they're sure to know exactly what they mean :)

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