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[EP-tech] Re: Permission denied error installing plugin

On 25/11/2015 05:26 μμ, Thomas Lauke wrote:

Hi Kahena,

did you check the set[GU]ID-attribute of your script causing the initial error message 'Failed to mkdir /usr/share/eprints/lib/epm/recollect: Permission denied'?
This setting/attribute could cause to run the script with a different effective user who owns this script ...

Hth
Thomas
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In my repos my ~eprints directory is owned by eprints UID and www-data GID, and www-data has write permissions. Hence, a: 

# chown -R eprints:www-data ~eprints
# chmod -R g+w ~eprints

sets my permissions as they're supposed to be. Adding a:
#chmod -R o-rwx ~eprints
makes things a bit more strict, but allows only apache and eprints user to make changes in my repo. 

I think if you have such permissions your configuration will work.

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