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Permissions Issue (on RaQ550)

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Permissions Issue (on RaQ550)
Hi,

I am a bit stumped with how to resolve an issue with Fileman on a RaQ550. I do not think the issue however is RaQ specific. Perhaps there is a simple solution.

I have users who have been provided FTP access to their home areas on the RaQ server. I have also provided some of these people with Fileman access. What is important for us here is that individual people be able to upload/download files as needed using FTP, but then be able to tailor the permissions/ownership (especially chmod) as needed (e.g. to add x to cgi scripts).

The problem is that files which are uploaded via FTP have the ownership of <username>:<sitename> (e.g. user1:site2), with permissions. Fileman runs under the webserver as the user httpd:httpd. Fileman cannot change the permissions of these files, or do anything really other than view files. Also, when a file is uploaded by Fileman it has the permissions 600 and ownership httpd:httpd, which make them invidible to the usert logged in via FTP.

Is there a simple solution to this that someone else can highlight for me?

I did a serach for posts relating to "permissions" issue using Fileman. I found a question which is similar to problem I have, but with no final solution.

Thanks for any help.
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Re: [jklassen] Permissions Issue (on RaQ550) In reply to
Look into running suEXEC or some other cgi wrapper for your cgi scripts. That will allow scripts to run as the user rather than httpd (or what ever Apache runs as.) You can find quite a bit on info on suEXEC here.

Regards,
Charlie