Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 11:52:19 +0000 From: ken@mui.net To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: chown vs chmod Message-ID: <199803242153.LAA12275@rocksalt.mui.net>
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I'm going nuts over these "rights" issues. how in the world do I get these chown and chmod stuff straight? I sort of understand it, finally but haven't the faintest idea of what's good and what's not. For instance, I need to be able to maintain the web pages and stuff. root obviously has the rights to everything, and can do whatever. not a good idea to use root all the time -- i get that part. "nobody" and "nogroup" is what apache uses to get into whatever is needed. ok, I'm with it so far. I understand that I need to use chmod to allow and disallow to various pages and routines. okay, I can follow instructions there. Now's the hard part. How do I in the meantime, maintain and build stuff. I'd like to use my signon to be able to do whatever, but not have to keep on changing permissions or whatever back and forth. There's got to be an easier way to do this. argh! ken (sorry, about that...just going goofy again) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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