Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:05:57 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: groups, using "www" as "kline" Message-ID: <20080721200556.GA8788@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <33B16A60-FB51-46A3-BE38-6FC5F5B92D72@mac.com> References: <20080721175020.GA4476@thought.org> <33B16A60-FB51-46A3-BE38-6FC5F5B92D72@mac.com>
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On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:08:15AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > 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. strage, i'm in kline is part of www; but i stil fon'thave permission for myself---or, indeed, anyone new. gary > > Regards, > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org
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