From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 21 18:08:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 173EA106567F for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:08:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout015.mac.com (asmtpout015.mac.com [17.148.16.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA2728FC17 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:08:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.227.140.124]) by asmtp015.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-6.03 (built Mar 14 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0K4D00BDOBPRUK90@asmtp015.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:08:15 -0700 (PDT) Sender: cswiger@mac.com Message-id: <33B16A60-FB51-46A3-BE38-6FC5F5B92D72@mac.com> From: Chuck Swiger To: Gary Kline In-reply-to: <20080721175020.GA4476@thought.org> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:08:15 -0700 References: <20080721175020.GA4476@thought.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.928.1) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: groups, using "www" as "kline" 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: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:08:16 -0000 On Jul 21, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Gary Kline wrote: > is there a way of modifing etcgroup to let me edit files > chown'd www:kline as kline? after all, i am in the wheel > and operator group. Presuming you are in the kline group also, and that the files are group-writable, you should be fine. On a fair number of sites I know of, there is a "webadmin" or "wwwadmin" group setup which the users who should change webserver resources are part of; but the apache www user is not a member of this, so it can't change those files itself. Regards, -- -Chuck