Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:51:48 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: pbrezny@newmail.skyrunner.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: permissions problems Message-ID: <20011212155148.I487@gohan.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0112121641350.14063-100000@newmail.skyrunner.net>; from pbrezny@newmail.skyrunner.net on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:53:26PM -0500 References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0112121641350.14063-100000@newmail.skyrunner.net>
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:53:26PM -0500, pbrezny@newmail.skyrunner.net wrote: > I've got a cgi program that needs access to a file owned by the user:group > netsaint:netsaint. > > the apache webserver runs as www, so I modified this entry in /etc/groups > > netsaint:*:1004:www > > > however, the cgi i'm working with says it can't write to the file of > interest unless i've modified the file i'm trying to write to with www as > the group, like this: > > -rwxrwxr-x 1 netsaint www 9006 Dec 12 16:30 hosts.cfg > > What am i missing here? > > Why can't i just add www to the list of users in the group netsaint? Did you _kill_ and restart the webserver? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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