[pmwiki-users] Bug: mkdirp crashes

Joachim Durchholz jo at durchholz.org
Mon Apr 11 15:48:05 CDT 2005


Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:32:31AM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> 
>>>>5) If mkdirp fails due to owner mismatch problems, it shouldn't
>>>>output a message telling the administrator that he can fix the
>>>>problem with a chmod. No message would be better, pointing the
>>>>admin to chown (resp. "rm -rf" followed by "su" or "sudo") would be
>>>>best.
>>>
>>>Not everyone has su or sudo, or even shell access, or even Unix.  The
>>>current system works for the vast majority of cases--I don't want to
>>>exclude 50% of potential wiki admins in order to "fix" an error 
>>>message for 2%.  (These numbers are conservative.)
>>
>>Shell access is irrelevant - the error message that comes out already 
>>assumes shell access.
> 
> No, one can also perform chmod operations from FTP -- this is how people
> who don't have shell accounts are still able to install PmWiki.  

Hey, the error messages says "chmod". (I don't remember whether it tells 
FTP users what they have to set - usually, they'll get to see three sets 
of rwx flags, so a "chmod 777" tells them zilch.)

Regards,
Jo



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