From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 27 09:49:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E3D16A944 for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 09:49:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alive@dienub.org) Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk (pfepa.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A8EF43D4C for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 09:48:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alive@dienub.org) Received: from m00h.dienub.org (dienub.org [87.49.144.133]) by pfepa.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF9E4FAC03C; Sat, 27 May 2006 11:48:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (unknown [192.168.0.2]) by m00h.dienub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A4201CC21; Sat, 27 May 2006 11:48:58 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <447820FD.5000602@dienub.org> Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 11:50:53 +0200 From: "Daniel A." User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kyrre Nygard References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060527102456.022a6fb0@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060527102456.022a6fb0@broadpark.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sharing /usr/local/www X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 09:49:19 -0000 Kyrre Nygard wrote: > > Hello! > > I have a team of designers working on web 2.0 like sites. > > I have added them all to this box, now I'm wondering what's the most > convenient > way of giving them all access to /usr/local/www? > > My temporary solution has been to add all users with UID and GID 80, > and then ln -s /usr/local/www ~/collabo for each user. > > If users have their original UID instead of www's then somehow they > can't read > or write to /usr/local/www. I thought sharing the same GID was sufficient, > but obviously it isn't. I find this very strange. > > Some of them prefer just using FTP, so then being able to click on collabo@ > and go straight to /usr/local/www is very convenient for them. > > But is there a better way? > > Thanks, > Kyrre > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hi Kyrre. Have you tried chmodding the www dir to be group-writable? Also, as someone else has suggested, SVN og CVS might be a good idea. They would not solve the problem you have right now, but they might help you avoid some possible problems with many people editing the same batch of files - sharing violations. What if two people start editing the same files on their own workstations, and both upload the changes? What about version control? et cetera, ad nauseam. Offcourse, non-repository development is possible, and I've done it myself without any issues whatsoever, but you're the one who decides what's best for your development.