From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 21 20:05:58 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 3ED931065676 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:05:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E259B8FC0A for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:05:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m6LK66WZ055516; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:06:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:05:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:05:57 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Chuck Swiger Message-ID: <20080721200556.GA8788@thought.org> References: <20080721175020.GA4476@thought.org> <33B16A60-FB51-46A3-BE38-6FC5F5B92D72@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <33B16A60-FB51-46A3-BE38-6FC5F5B92D72@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21++ years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org 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 20:05:58 -0000 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