From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 12 13:53:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from newmail.skyrunner.net (newmail.skyrunner.net [208.133.44.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D88C337B405 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 13:53:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (pbrezny@localhost) by newmail.skyrunner.net (8.11.2/8.11.0/SuSE Linux 8.11.0-0.4) with ESMTP id fBCLrQE14915 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:53:26 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:53:26 -0500 (EST) From: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: permissions problems Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got a cgi program that needs access to a file owned by the user:group netsaint:netsaint. the apache webserver runs as www, so I modified this entry in /etc/groups netsaint:*:1004:www however, the cgi i'm working with says it can't write to the file of interest unless i've modified the file i'm trying to write to with www as the group, like this: -rwxrwxr-x 1 netsaint www 9006 Dec 12 16:30 hosts.cfg What am i missing here? Why can't i just add www to the list of users in the group netsaint? TIA. Peter Brezny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message