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[Dennison Williams]

Hello,

 

I am debugging a situation on one of our servers where we are using tubepress and have noticed that there have been some unexpected file ownership and permission changes.  Grepping through the different code running on a website of one of the problem users I noticed that this plugin includes some code that references the chown command.  Doing a cursory read through the code I was having a had time understanding how these commands might be used and I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on this.

 

Sincerely,

Dennison

[brandon]

Hello Dennison,

 

I have asked one of our developers to respond to your post.

 

Thanks for your patience!

[eric]

Hi Dennison,

 

My apologies for the delayed response - I was on holiday for the past week.

 

Sounds like you are using an older version of TubePress as the "fimble" library is no longer in use. The library itself was a PHP 5.1 compatible fork of Symfony's Filesystem component, and TubePress used in one particular situation; when used in WordPress installations, it created TubePress's Content Directory when it did not already exist. Typically this happens only the first time a WordPress user installs TubePress.

 

Does that shed some light? If you are trying to narrow down the ownership changes, I would personally feel comfortable commenting out any of the relevant commands from fimble.

[Dennison Williams]

Thanks for the reply.  It does shed some light.  Just to narrow things down I upgraded and have copied out the FS chown/chmod code from that library.  I will post back if I continue to suspect this module.