[Bug 109559] Re: Please don't change permissions of /var/log/lighttpd during upgrade

[Brian Ziman]

The trouble here is that the user lighttpd runs as is configured from
lighttpd.conf.  The server supports running as the specified user.

For a new installation, I can understand how the package might assume a
particular user, but once the system is installed, updates need to honor
the configuration.  If a package is already installed, it's a good bet
that you shouldn't screw with the permissions and users associated with
that package, during an upgrade.  That means, don't re-create the www-
data user, sure as hell don't give it a shell, and don't change the
ownership of related files.

The package scripts could always grep out server.username from
/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf, but you shouldn't just assume www-data, and
stomp all over an existing configuration.

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Please don't change permissions of /var/log/lighttpd during upgrade
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