etc file ownership

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Todd Richmond
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 11:00 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] etc file ownership
> 
> im using nagios on a debian sarge system.  As i have edited the
configs
> some of them are not longer owned by www-data.  Should all config
other
> files in /etc/nagios be owned by nagios:www-data ?

As long as your webserver and nagios have read access to the files it
doesn't really matter who they are owned by or what group they are in.
It's just a matter of how secure you want to be (in general) or how
concerned you are about consistency.

--
Marc


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