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I have hosted a nginx server instance and the temp directories are created under /etc/nginx/</div>
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$ ls -ld /etc/nginx/*_temp
<div class="ContentPasted0">drwx------ 2 nobody root 4096 Mar 16 15:21 /etc/nginx/client_body_temp</div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">drwx------ 2 nobody root 4096 Mar 16 15:21 /etc/nginx/fastcgi_temp</div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">drwx------ 2 nobody root 4096 Mar 16 15:21 /etc/nginx/proxy_temp</div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">drwx------ 2 nobody root 4096 Mar 16 15:21 /etc/nginx/scgi_temp</div>
drwx------ 2 nobody root 4096 Mar 16 15:21 /etc/nginx/uwsgi_temp</div>
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And I updated to a newer version of nginx which runs in "nginx" user context and after that these directory ownership is getting changed to nginx:root but the issue is, it happens only on these top directories and not directories within these temp directories.</div>
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I did strace on the same to confirm my theory.</div>
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mkdir("/etc/nginx/client_body_temp", 0700) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
<div class="ContentPasted1">stat("/etc/nginx/client_body_temp", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0</div>
<div class="ContentPasted1">chown("/etc/nginx/client_body_temp", 997, -1) = 0</div>
<div class="ContentPasted1">mkdir("/etc/nginx/proxy_temp", 0700) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)</div>
<div class="ContentPasted1">stat("/etc/nginx/proxy_temp", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0</div>
<div class="ContentPasted1">chown("/etc/nginx/proxy_temp", 997, -1) = 0</div>
<div class="ContentPasted1">mkdir("/etc/nginx/fastcgi_temp", 0700) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)</div>
<div class="ContentPasted1">stat("/etc/nginx/fastcgi_temp", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0</div>
<div class="ContentPasted1">chown("/etc/nginx/fastcgi_temp", 997, -1) = 0</div>
<div class="ContentPasted1">mkdir("/etc/nginx/uwsgi_temp", 0700) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)</div>
<div class="ContentPasted1">stat("/etc/nginx/uwsgi_temp", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0</div>
<div class="ContentPasted1">chown("/etc/nginx/uwsgi_temp", 997, -1) = 0</div>
<div class="ContentPasted1">mkdir("/etc/nginx/scgi_temp", 0700) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)</div>
stat("/etc/nginx/scgi_temp", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0<br>
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Now the issue is, why chown happens only on top directory and not recursively on all files and directories inside them? Is this a bug or is it fixed in latest version of nginx?</div>
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I'm currently using nginx-1.22.0. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.<br>
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