[olug] protecting MySQL password on multi-user system

[Dave Weis]

Eric P wrote:
> Phil Brammer wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:48:10PM -0500, Eric P wrote:
>>
>>>It looks like apache is being run under the user name 'noname'.  Does that make sense?
>>
>>Yes.
>>
>>>However, it won't let me chgrp or chown to 'noname'
>>>$ chown noname file.php
>>>chown: changing ownership of `testing': Operation not permitted
>>
>>
>>Umm...  What did you change in the above text?  You are chown'ing file.php, but the error message references a filename of "testing."  Make sure you are root.
> 
> 
> Opps... I changed 'testing' to 'file.php' just for the email.
> 
> As I said in the beginning of this thread, it's a multi-user Linux system, so I don't have root perms.

On most/all Unix systems from the last 20 years, you can't do file 
giveaways like that as a non-root user. The reasoning is that you could 
change ownership to other people so it counts against their quota on the 
system but they can't get to it.

dave