Re: [SMARTY-DEV] setting up directories

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 02:12:55PM +0400, Konstantin A. Pelepelin wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:30:48 +0200, Messju Mohr <messju@lammfellpuschen.de> > wrote: > > > >chown [webserver_user].[ftp_user's_group] > >chmod 770 templates_c > >chmod g+s templates_c > > > >[and in php:] > >umask(0007); > >$smarty->_file_perms = 0660; > >$smarty->_dir_perms = 0770; > > > > > >this makes the files created owned by the webserver-users (so he has > >full permissions), but due to the group-sticky-bit of the directory > >the files' group is your ftp-user's group. so the ftp-user has write > >permissions via the group-writable flag. > > Doesn't it worth noting this case in documentation? > > 'chmod' man page says nothing about meaning of SGID-bit on directories, and > it may work or may not work on some OSes or filesystems. On Linux 2.4 > ext2(3)fs it works as you say. yes, i should have mentionend that this works for me and was tested only on a linux-box. AFAIR i found this out by trial-and-error ages ago and never bothered to verify the documentation why and where it worked. if we can draw a clear line which systems support this and which may not it may be worth a technical note in the docs, IMHO. > WBR, > Konstantin A. Pelepelin