[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #14753: Automatic Upgrade Breaks when Owner in *NIX is not Web Server user

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#14753: Automatic Upgrade Breaks when Owner in *NIX is not Web Server user
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 Reporter:  captbrando       |       Owner:                 
     Type:  defect (bug)     |      Status:  new            
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Upgrade/Install  |     Version:  3.0.1          
 Severity:  normal           |    Keywords:                 
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 After troubleshooting an automatic upgrade issue off and on for about a
 year, I think I have finally discovered the issue that caused the auto
 upgrade to fail.

 IN this setup, I had a user with their own directory and site. Their unix
 user ID owned the directory and files, and the webserver's group had write
 access to all the files (verified in the apache config that it was using
 that group).

 The automatic upgrade ONLY worked when I changed the user ownership to
 that of the webserver user ID.  I did nothing to permissions, just changed
 who owned the file, then the automatic upgrade worked.  This should not be
 how wordpress works, as from a permissions perspective, it has access to
 modify anything inside those directories (under the group write permission
 bit).  I'm not sure WHICH file changed the behavior, but when I changed
 all the wp* files recursively to be owned by the webserver, it worked.

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