[olug] protecting MySQL password on multi-user system

[Phil Brammer]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:48:10PM -0500, Eric P wrote:
> It looks like apache is being run under the user name 'noname'.  Does that make sense?

Yes.

> However, it won't let me chgrp or chown to 'noname'
> $ chown noname file.php
> chown: changing ownership of `testing': Operation not permitted

Umm...  What did you change in the above text?  You are chown'ing file.php, but the error message references a filename of "testing."  Make sure you are root.