groups, using "www" as "kline"

Gary Kline kline at thought.org
Mon Jul 21 20:05:58 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:08:15AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Jul 21, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Gary Kline wrote:
> >	is there a way of modifing etcgroup to let me edit files
> >	chown'd www:kline as kline?  after all, i am in the wheel
> >	and operator group.
> 
> Presuming you are in the kline group also, and that the files are  
> group-writable, you should be fine.
> 
> On a fair number of sites I know of, there is a "webadmin" or  
> "wwwadmin" group setup which the users who should change webserver  
> resources are part of; but the apache www user is not a member of  
> this, so it can't change those files itself.


	strage, i'm in kline is part of www; but i stil fon'thave
	permission for myself---or, indeed, anyone new.

	gary



> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> -Chuck
> 
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