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Hardening: "Regarding automatic updates" is incorrect #332

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jamieburchell opened this issue Mar 21, 2024 · 0 comments

jamieburchell commented Mar 21, 2024

https://github.com/WordPress/Advanced-administration-handbook/blob/main/security/hardening.md#regarding-automatic-updates-regarding-automatic-updates

When you tell WordPress to perform an automatic update, all file operations are performed as the user that owns the files, not as the web server's user.

Unless it is meant that updates are performed via FTP by the owner of said files, this is incorrect.

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