/usr/local/www permissions

[jtran]

For some odd reason, the permissions on /usr/local/www keep reverting back to root:wheel although I changed the owner to www:www many times

Any idea as to why this is happening? If this has been answered before, please point me in the right direction

 

[Alt]

This is God saving your www folder from bugged php scripts, cus they exec from www user.

 

[dandelion]

/usr/local/www is part of /usr/ports/Templates/BSD.local.dist. That mtree(8) template is used to populate PREFIX (i.e. /usr/local) on every port/package install.

 

[jtran]

Thanks for pointing me in the right, dandelion

I ended up editing /usr/ports/Templates/BSD.local.dist and adding the following before www

/set uname=www gname=www

Then, I ran [cmd=]sudo mtree -U -f /usr/ports/Templates/BSD.local.dist -p /usr/local/[/cmd] to apply the changes instead of waiting for the next time I compile and install a port.

Many thanks