Media File Ownership (Ubuntu 10.10)

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Only media files owned by www-data:www-data can be played. How can media files 
owned by my user (Ex. foo:foo) be made available?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by koe1...@gmail.com on 22 Feb 2011 at 11:30

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DirectoryIterator::__construct(/media/disk1): failed to open dir: Permission 
denied

Original comment by koe1...@gmail.com on 22 Feb 2011 at 11:32

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It's not the ownership the problem. You have to be sure that files and 
directory can have read/execution permission for "Others" so webserver 
(www-data user) can access it.

Example:

/media/disk1 is owned by foo:foo and has 770 as permission mask. If you change 
it to 775 or 777 even webserver can access it and the ownership still is 
foo:foo

770 = read-write-execution for owner, read-write-execution for group, nothing 
for others
775 = read-write-execution for owner, read-write-execution for group, 
read-execution for others
777 = read-write-execution for owner, read-write-execution for group, 
read-write-execution for others

Original comment by ximarx@gmail.com on 22 Feb 2011 at 11:59

• Changed state: Done
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