From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 10 16:46:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA14435 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:46:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (tnt2-69.HiWAAY.net [208.147.148.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA14423 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:46:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (localhost.ampr.org [127.0.0.1]) by n4hhe.ampr.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA06993; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 18:46:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Message-Id: <199811110046.SAA06993@n4hhe.ampr.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Patrick Seal" cc: "FBSDQ" From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Ftp Permissions In-reply-to: Message from "Patrick Seal" of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 19:13:17 EST." <000301be0d08$14c35e40$0200a8c0@asus.hyperhost.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 18:46:07 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Patrick Seal" writes: > I want the user patseal in the wheel group to be able to upload into > /usr/local/www/data/ > The only way I see to do that is to change the owner from root to > patseal for that directory. Is their any other way to do this? Is my > solution safe? Add user patseal to the group of the directory /usr/local/www/data, possibly group name "http" or similar. You might want to run your web server in the same group, otherwise user patseal has to be careful to make sure the web server can still read files deposited via ftp. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message