Sys-admin question (users/groups etc)

appleshampoo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 116

I'm setting up a Gentoo box for a class project to work on and just installed apache2. I want all of the group to have read/write access to the www folders, so I changed the group ownership to group "www" for everything below /var/www/localhost and added all of the users to the "www" group.

But the issue is that when a user creates a file in these places, it defaults to their username and the "users" group for ownership, so that other members can't access it without manually changing stuff everytime.

I'm hoping this is a well-know question, I just haven't run across the situation myself.

n3mo · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:27 pm Post subject:

Make www the primary group for each user.

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fvant · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:28 pm Post subject:

The users can do a

dpetka2001 · l33t Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 804

could also possibly do some digging about the set-gid bit if i'm right...that way all the files created below /var/www/localhost would be created with the permissions of the group the parent directory belongs to...i hope i didn't misunderstand anything when i was reading about "chmod"...

fvant · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject:

anoland · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 86