I only know the basics of linux admin, but I think it's normal for the web server to run as a different user than the one that owns the files and directories, for security.
Thats true, the vbulletin software does not login to the server with the owners username and password. Actualy, it doesn't login at all.
Part of the confusion might be the use of the word "user". I've been talking about users in the OS, which is different than vb users. If you set a directory to be writable to everyone (all OS users, that is), that probably isn't an issue.
Edit: I guess what I'm saying is that I agree, you should set it to 777 and see if that works.
Which would be 'safer' - more 'conservative'? 0777 allows for execution, and 0666 does not, yes?
The "execute" bit means something different for files than directories. While it means "executable" for a file, for a directory is means "searchable". It may or may not work with the directory "searchable" bit set to off, I don't know. But you probably won't be able to do a directory listing in ssh.
What are the permissions for the ./images/avatars directory on your forums? What are the permissions on the contents of that directory? In other words, what are the 'default' permissions supposed to be?
But this crossed my mind...
Do you save your images in your database or on the filesystem?
That could explain something.
I don't know, but given there are no images in the directory, yet the Administrators avatars and profile pictures are being seen, I'd say in the database. How can I validate that?
11-18-2012, 07:12 PM
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