From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 14 1: 5:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D09437B416 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 01:05:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.140.14.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.140.14] helo=gohan.cjclark.org) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16EoHA-0003wf-00; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 01:05:08 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by gohan.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fBCNpnR02712; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:51:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:51:48 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: pbrezny@newmail.skyrunner.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: permissions problems Message-ID: <20011212155148.I487@gohan.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from pbrezny@newmail.skyrunner.net on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:53:26PM -0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ 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 On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:53:26PM -0500, pbrezny@newmail.skyrunner.net wrote: > 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? Did you _kill_ and restart the webserver? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message