Allegedly, on or about 19 June 2013, Anthony sent: > The problem is, of course, I've denied root login but don't have > sufficient privs to login and transfer files under my username. Sounds like an underlying problem, here, of understanding the filesystem, more than just having a problem with Apache. By "denying root logins," do you mean that you can't login as the root user, in the same way that you would login as yourself? That's normal, for graphical logins. Not normal for command line interfaces. Don't try logging in as root. Open up a terminal, and switchover to the root user, do what changes you need to make, then switch back to yourself. For example: [tim@server ~]$ su - Password: [root@server ~]# chgrp tim /var/www/html [root@server ~]# ls -ld /var/www/html drwxr-xr-x 2 root tim 4096 Sep 19 2007 /var/www/html/ [root@server ~]# logout [tim@server ~]$ cp testpage.html /var/www/html/ [tim@server ~]# cd /var/www/html [tim@server html]# gvim homepage.html That's just one approach of giving myself access, of checking that it worked, then starting to do things in that directory as myself. The "su" command is a "switch user" command, or "substitute user." Over the years the letters have been said to stand for various things, so concern yourself with what it does, more than what it might stand for. The dash, after it, gives you the usual shell environment for the user that you're going to switch to, rather than carrying on using your own (it's an abbreviation for "-l" or "--login". And in the absence of typing in a username after it, too, you'll switch to being the root user. i.e. "su -" or "su -l" or "su --login" or "su -l root" all do the same thing. See the man file for su. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.8.13-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 13 13:36:17 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
