[pmwiki-users] Bug: mkdirp crashes

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:32:31AM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> >>5) If mkdirp fails due to owner mismatch problems, it shouldn't
> >>output a message telling the administrator that he can fix the
> >>problem with a chmod. No message would be better, pointing the
> >>admin to chown (resp. "rm -rf" followed by "su" or "sudo") would be
> >>best.
> >
> >Not everyone has su or sudo, or even shell access, or even Unix.  The
> > current system works for the vast majority of cases--I don't want to
> > exclude 50% of potential wiki admins in order to "fix" an error 
> >message for 2%.  (These numbers are conservative.)
>
> Shell access is irrelevant - the error message that comes out already 
> assumes shell access.

No, one can also perform chmod operations from FTP -- this is how people
who don't have shell accounts are still able to install PmWiki.  

Pm