Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:15:05 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Jackson <d055633c@dc.seflin.org> To: ken@mui.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chown vs chmod Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9803261053.B11174-0100000@dc.seflin.org.> In-Reply-To: <199803242153.LAA12275@rocksalt.mui.net>
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Try SU Robert Jackson d055633c@dc.seflin.org On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 ken@mui.net wrote: > I'm going nuts over these "rights" issues. > > how in the world do I get these chown and chmod stuff straight? > > I sort of understand it, finally but haven't the faintest idea of > what's good and what's not. For instance, I need to be able to > maintain the web pages and stuff. root obviously has the rights to > everything, and can do whatever. not a good idea to use root all the > time -- i get that part. "nobody" and "nogroup" is what apache uses > to get into whatever is needed. ok, I'm with it so far. I > understand that I need to use chmod to allow and disallow to various > pages and routines. okay, I can follow instructions there. > > Now's the hard part. How do I in the meantime, maintain and build > stuff. I'd like to use my signon to be able to do whatever, but not > have to keep on changing permissions or whatever back and forth. > There's got to be an easier way to do this. > > argh! > > ken (sorry, about that...just going goofy again) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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