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administration:security [2023/08/17 12:26] – [Don't Leave Autoconfiguration Turned On] demiankatzadministration:security [2024/02/20 13:09] (current) – [Security] demiankatz
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-====== Security ======+====== Security for VuFind® Administrators ======
  
 ===== Unix Accounts and Permissions ===== ===== Unix Accounts and Permissions =====
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 It's necessary to put VuFind® into "autoconfiguration" mode via the "autoConfigure" setting of [[configuration:files:config.ini]] for initial installation and when performing upgrades. You should never turn this setting on at any other time, and you should remember to turn it off whenever you are done with it! It's necessary to put VuFind® into "autoconfiguration" mode via the "autoConfigure" setting of [[configuration:files:config.ini]] for initial installation and when performing upgrades. You should never turn this setting on at any other time, and you should remember to turn it off whenever you are done with it!
  
-Similarly, while it is sometimes useful to give Apache ownership of your configuration files to allow it to write updates to disk, this ownership should only be granted during active maintenance of VuFind®, and ownership should be given to a different user at all other times.+On a related note, while it is sometimes necessary to give Apache ownership of your configuration files to allow it to write updates to disk during autoconfiguration, this ownership should only be granted during active maintenance of VuFind®, and ownership should be given to a different user at all other times.
 ---- struct data ---- ---- struct data ----
 properties.Page Owner :  properties.Page Owner : 
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administration/security.1692275163.txt.gz · Last modified: 2023/08/17 12:26 by demiankatz