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Hardening: "Regarding automatic updates" is incorrect #332

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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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