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Date:      Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:12:36 -0400
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To:        Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: User properties and how to make files with a specific group owner
Message-ID:  <20080710151236.GB90730@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200807101345.00536.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
References:  <200807092026.42703.af300wsm@gmail.com> <200807101345.00536.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>

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On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 01:45:00PM +0200, Mel wrote:

> On Thursday 10 July 2008 04:26:42 Andrew Falanga wrote:
> 
> > How do I get this to stop working like this and create files
> > with UID=andy GID=www?
> 
> Just a head's up: www is the group id from Apache by default, so doing this, 
> you'll make the files writeable by the webserver, generally not something you 
> want to do.

Only if the files have group write permission.   Or was
that covered in this thread already?

////jerry

> It's better to create a seperate group, say 'wwwadmin'.
> 
> -- 
> Mel
> 
> Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
>     and never get to the software part.
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