Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 02:19:00 -0700 From: Aaron Holmes <aaron@aaronholmes.net> To: Kyrre Nygard <kyrreny@broadpark.no> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com> Subject: Re: Sharing /usr/local/www Message-ID: <44781984.4080702@aaronholmes.net> In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060527111043.022bfb40@broadpark.no> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060527102456.022a6fb0@broadpark.no> <200605270046.04333.beech@alaskaparadise.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060527111043.022bfb40@broadpark.no>
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Kyrre Nygard wrote: > At 10:45 27.05.2006, Beech Rintoul wrote: >> On Saturday 27 May 2006 00:32, Kyrre Nygard wrote: >> > Hello! >> > >> > I have a team of designers working on web 2.0 like sites. >> > >> > I have added them all to this box, now I'm wondering what's the most >> > convenient way of giving them all access to /usr/local/www? >> > >> > My temporary solution has been to add all users with UID and GID 80, >> > and then ln -s /usr/local/www ~/collabo for each user. >> > >> > If users have their original UID instead of www's then somehow they >> can't >> > read or write to /usr/local/www. I thought sharing the same GID was >> > sufficient, but obviously it isn't. I find this very strange. >> > >> > Some of them prefer just using FTP, so then being able to click on >> collabo@ >> > and go straight to /usr/local/www is very convenient for them. >> > >> > But is there a better way? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Kyrre >> >> CVS is your friend. But there are also a ton of php scripts out there >> to do >> what you want. >> >> Beech >> -- > > Yeah I hear a lot of people like CVS. > > But I fail to realize how it might assist me though. > > I'm not setting up a code repository, this is an actual WWW root > where a lot of different websites are hosted. > > Please correct me if I'm wrong. > > And what PHP scripts are you talking about? > > Thanks a lot, > Kyrre > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > I think the easiest way would be to add them all to a similar group (www, perhaps) and chown -R user:group /usr/local/www; chmod -R g+rw /usr/local/www This will give whatever group you specify read, and write access to the directory.
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